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What's the one class at Hoover Elementary School every student should take?
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Enrollment
582
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001694
Hoover Elementary School
400 W Viola Ave, Yakima, WA 98902 · (509) 573-5900 · Yakima County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL582 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
36 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
94%
549 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
Community
1
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 | 95 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 106 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 96 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 98 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 93 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (95) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (93).
Student demographics
24%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
27.1%
WA avg 58.4% . -0.2pp since 2014
Math
20.9%
WA avg 51.2% . -8.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 27 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 21 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores are down about 8 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.1% | 20.9% |
| 2023-24 | 26.8% | 25.3% |
| 2022-23 | 24.0% | 20.8% |
| 2021-22 | 20.6% | 14.9% |
| 2018-19 | 27.2% | 27.4% |
| 2017-18 | 30.1% | 28.6% |
| 2016-17 | 22.5% | 26.4% |
| 2015-16 | 30.8% | 29.4% |
| 2014-15 | 27.3% | 29.1% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of WA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
28.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
16.9%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+11.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 17% typical for Washington schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 11 points, placing it in Washington's top 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 (28.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary School this school | 582 | 94.3% | 28.3% |
| Barge-Lincoln Elementary School Yakima | 518 | 92.9% | 25.2% |
| Garfield Elementary School Yakima | 507 | 92.9% | 22.7% |
| Adams Elementary School Yakima | 643 | 94.4% | 21.4% |
| Martin Luther King Jr Elementary Yakima | 485 | 92.6% | 21.7% |
| Union Gap School Union Gap | 558 | 88.5% | 44.8% |
Matched among Washington 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 Washington | In Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.3% | #825 of 936 | #27 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 20.9% | #1,028 of 1,103 ▼ 79 | #39 of 45 ▼ 9 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.1% | #989 of 1,102 ▲ 2 | #29 of 45 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +6.2pp | #208 of 928 | #10 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 582 | #121 of 1,268 | #5 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #595 of 1,085 | #23 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 24.3% | #1,033 of 1,088 | #32 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 94.3% | #9 of 1,169 | #3 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #218 of 778 | #13 of 40 |
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
582
-137 (-19%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 590
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 18.4:1
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 | 582 | 36.4 | 16.0:1 | 94% (549) |
| 2023-24 | 682 | 43.7 | 15.6:1 | 95% (645) |
| 2022-23 | 673 | 41.6 | 16.2:1 | 88% (595) |
| 2020-21 | 719 | 39 | 18.4:1 | 83% (594) |
| 2017-18 | 761 | 34.1 | 22.3:1 | 80% (607) |
| 2015-16 | 748 | 31 | 24.1:1 | 90% (670) |
| 2010-11 | 616 | 32 | 19.3:1 | 77% (475) |
| 2000-01 | 540 | 32 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 590 | 35 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 24% (761 to 582); teachers up 7% (34.1 to 36.4).
About Hoover Elementary School
Hoover Elementary School is a large elementary school in Yakima, Washington, under Yakima School District. The grade span is pre-K through 5, and enrollment is 582 students. An average school in this group (elementary schools in Washington) has about 380 students.
In Yakima School District, 27 schools enroll a combined 15,488 students.
Hispanic students are the large majority at Hoover Elementary School, with 86% of enrollment. Enrollment also includes 10% White. Among people living in Yakima County, the Hispanic share is about 52%. Hoover Elementary School has a diversity index of 24%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal staffing data show 36.4 full-time-equivalent teachers at Hoover Elementary School and a ratio of 16.0:1. The average ratio among elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, higher than at this school. The count of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch equals 94% of enrollment. The average for public schools in Yakima County is 77%.
In Washington, Hoover Elementary School is one of the top 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate on state tests of 28.3% compared with a predicted 16.9%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Yakima County, median household income is about $70,656, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 19%, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Hoover Elementary School is one of 119 public schools in Yakima County, which together enroll about 52,145 students.
The closest public school, Ridgeview Elementary, is about 0.6 miles from Hoover Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Hoover Elementary School ranks 4th of 8 on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Hoover Elementary School as City: Small.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 582 was 19% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 719. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 18.4:1; by 2024-25 it was 16.0:1.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week at Hoover Elementary School. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 27.
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolLanghorne, PA · 661 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 660 students
- Hoover ElementaryStockton, CA · 654 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolMedford, OR · 591 students
Nearby schools
- Ridgeview Elementary0.6 mi · 533
- Lewis & Clark Middle School0.8 mi · 815
- Mckinley Elementary School1.0 mi · 403
- Davis High School1.1 mi · 2,359
- Mcclure Elementary School1.3 mi · 559
- ESD 105 Open Doors1.3 mi · 120
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School enrolls approximately 582 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hoover Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hoover Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Hoover Elementary School have?
Hoover Elementary School employs 36 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.0:1.
How diverse is Hoover Elementary School?
Hoover Elementary School reports a student body of 10% White, 86% Hispanic, 2% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Hoover Elementary School in?
Hoover Elementary School is part of Yakima School District.
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