Enrollment
285
Elementary
DISTRICT 346 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MT LEBANON SD·NCES 421611000251
Hoover Elementary School
37 Robb Hollow Rd, Pittsburgh, PA 15243 · (412) 276-7411 · Allegheny County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL285 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 95% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
19%
53 students
DISTRICT 17% · STATE 75%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 44 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 49 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 12% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
44%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 33% · STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
81.8%
PA avg 51.1% . +3.1pp since 2023
Math
87.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 88 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.8% | 87.6% |
| 2023-24 | 78.7% | 81.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
84.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+14.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 84% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School's state test result (84.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary School this school | 285 | 18.6% | 84.2% |
| Chadds Ford Elementary School Chadds Ford | 328 | 14.0% | 81.9% |
| Limerick Elementary School Royersford | 257 | 26.1% | 78.8% |
| McCormick Elementary School Moon Township | 229 | 10.5% | 86.5% |
| Corl Street Elementary School State College | 250 | 18.0% | 75.3% |
| Ferguson Twp Elementary School Pine Grove Mills | 287 | 15.3% | 80.8% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Hoover Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Allegheny County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 84.2% | #46 of 1,396 | #18 of 129 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 87.6% | #31 of 1,511 ▲ 28 | #19 of 141 ▲ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.8% | #54 of 1,511 ▲ 87 | #21 of 141 ▲ 19 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 285 | #1,301 of 1,638 | #117 of 156 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,198 of 1,528 | #107 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 44.4% | #669 of 1,531 | #68 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 18.6% | #1,459 of 1,600 | #123 of 152 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.6% | #344 of 450 | #48 of 63 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
285
+10 (+4%) vs 2020
-3% since 1990-91, when it was 293
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
was 13.8:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 285 | 19.5 | 14.7:1 | 19% (53) |
| 2023-24 | 283 | 20.1 | 14.1:1 | 19% (53) |
| 2022-23 | 281 | 20.1 | 14.0:1 | 19% (52) |
| 2020-21 | 275 | 20 | 13.8:1 | 12% (34) |
| 2017-18 | 275 | 19.8 | 13.9:1 | 9% (26) |
| 2015-16 | 227 | 18 | 12.6:1 | 9% (20) |
| 2010-11 | 238 | 19 | 12.5:1 | 11% (27) |
| 2000-01 | 262 | 17 | 15.4:1 | 0% (0) |
| 1990-91 | 293 | 17 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (275 to 285); teachers down 2% (19.8 to 19.5).
About Hoover Elementary School
Federal records list Hoover Elementary School as an elementary school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The school enrolls 285 students, from kindergarten through 5. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Pennsylvania) has about 443 students.
Hoover Elementary School is run by Mt Lebanon SD, whose 10 schools enroll 5,477 students.
Hoover Elementary School's enrollment is 72% White. Other groups make up 19% Asian, 4% multiracial, 3% Hispanic, and 2% Black. By the diversity index, Hoover Elementary School comes in at 44%.
At Hoover Elementary School, 19.5 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 14.7:1. That ratio is over the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania. Students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch make up 19% of enrollment. That is 35 points below the 54% average for public schools in Allegheny County.
allk12 grades Hoover Elementary School an A+. The grade compares the school only with Pennsylvania public elementary schools, because each state gives its own test.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Hoover Elementary School would be expected to post about 69.6%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 84.2%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Allegheny County show that median household income is about $78,548, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 46%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Hoover Elementary School is one of 277 public schools in Allegheny County, which together enroll about 141,392 students.
The shortest distance from Hoover Elementary School to another public school is about 0.7 miles, to Jefferson Elementary School. The five-mile area around Hoover Elementary School holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 80.3%, lower than Hoover Elementary School's 84.2%.
Locale data from NCES put Hoover Elementary School in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, the student count grew from 275 to 285.
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Allegheny County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,238,177
Census ACS
Median income
$78,548
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
277
141,392 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mt Lebanon SD
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Mellon Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 621 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 416 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
- Howe Elementary SchoolElementary · 398 students
Other schools in Pittsburgh
- Mt Lebanon SHSHigh · 1,772 students
- Baldwin SHSHigh · 1,657 students
- North Hills High SchoolHigh · 1,443 students
- Pittsburgh Allderdice High SchoolHigh · 1,386 students
- Fox Chapel Area High SchoolHigh · 1,360 students
- Upper Saint Clair High SchoolHigh · 1,269 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary School is the 19th largest of the 27.
- Hoover Elementary SchoolLanghorne, PA · 661 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolCamp Hill, PA · 254 students
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 660 students
- Hoover ElementaryStockton, CA · 654 students
Nearby schools
- Jefferson Elementary School0.7 mi · 310
- Jefferson Middle School0.7 mi · 621
- Markham Elementary School0.9 mi · 296
- Mt Lebanon SHS1.0 mi · 1,772
- Mellon Middle School1.3 mi · 661
- Washington Elementary School1.3 mi · 416
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover Elementary SchoolHow large is Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School enrolls approximately 285 students in grades KG-05.
Is Hoover Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hoover Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Hoover Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Hoover Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Hoover Elementary School?
At Hoover Elementary School, the student body is approximately 72% White, 3% Hispanic, 2% Black, 19% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School is overseen by Mt Lebanon SD in Allegheny County.
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