Hoover Elementary School

Hoover Elementary School is an average-sized K-5 school in Salem, Oregon, part of Salem-Keizer SD 24J. The school serves 402 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 25% above the state mean of about 321.

Hoover Elementary School is one of 65 schools operated by Salem-Keizer SD 24J, a district that teaches 37,776 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hoover Elementary School lists that 76% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 16% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Pacific Islander. By comparison, Marion County as a whole is about 29% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Hoover Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.3%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of -10.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Marion County) reports that median household earnings sit near $77,351, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Marion County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 53,799 students), of which Hoover Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Englewood Elementary School, around 0.8 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Hoover Elementary School comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 15.7%.

Hoover Elementary School operates from a high-density location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 9%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 402 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 66% to 76%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 17.9:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

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