HOOVER ELEMENTARY

HOOVER ELEMENTARY is a moderately sized elementary school in NORTH MANKATO, Minnesota, operated by MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school works with 461 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Minnesota's public schools average about 344 students each, so HOOVER ELEMENTARY sits 34% larger than that benchmark.

Within MANKATO PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 22 schools and 8,219 students, HOOVER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, HOOVER ELEMENTARY records that White students make up the majority at 75%. Beyond that, the school reports 9% Black, 8% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.7:1, putting HOOVER ELEMENTARY higher than the state norm the norm. Around 25% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Nicollet County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, HOOVER ELEMENTARY sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 51.4%; this one delivers 53.6%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Nicollet County) reports that median household income runs about $79,756, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 3%. Across Nicollet County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 4,447 students), HOOVER ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

FUTURES PROGRAM is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.9 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOOVER ELEMENTARY. On composite proficiency, HOOVER ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 54.8%.

HOOVER ELEMENTARY operates from a bedroom-community location.

Over the past 7-year window. HOOVER ELEMENTARY's enrollment has ticked down 18% since 2018, when it stood at 565 (now 461). The Black share of enrollment edged down from 17% to 9% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.

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