HOOVER MIDDLE

HOOVER MIDDLE is a junior high of middle-of-the-pack scale in ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico, overseen by ALBUQUERQUE, instructing 404 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, New Mexico's public schools average about 335 students each, so HOOVER MIDDLE sits 21% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 171 schools in ALBUQUERQUE (74,041 students total), HOOVER MIDDLE accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, HOOVER MIDDLE records that the most-represented group is Hispanic (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% White, 10% multiracial, 5% Native American, 3% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, HOOVER MIDDLE records 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Bernalillo County (around 90%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, HOOVER MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.5%, the actual is 46.7%, a residual of +13.3 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Bernalillo County shows the typical household earns roughly $69,473 per year, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. HOOVER MIDDLE is one of 211 public schools in Bernalillo County (combined enrollment of about 85,724 students).

JOHN BAKER ELEMENTARY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around HOOVER MIDDLE. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts HOOVER MIDDLE at 4th of 7; the average score across the group is 50.4%.

HOOVER MIDDLE operates from a metropolitan location.

Over the past 7-year window. HOOVER MIDDLE's enrollment has shrank 27% since 2018, when it stood at 556 (now 404). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 40% to 29%.

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