Hoover Elementary

Hoover Elementary operates as a cozy elementary campus in Neenah, Wisconsin, overseen by Neenah Joint School District. Current enrollment sits at 189 students spanning grades K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 41% below the state mean of about 323.

Neenah Joint School District runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 6,662 students. Hoover Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Hoover Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 59%; the rest breaks down as 15% Hispanic, 11% multiracial, 9% Black, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Hoover Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Hoover Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 69% of students at Hoover Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Winnebago County's rate of about 41%.

With demographic context factored in, Hoover Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 35.5%; Hoover Elementary posts 50.5%, +15.1 points above that line.

In the area at large, census data for Winnebago County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,925 per year, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Winnebago County's 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students), Hoover Elementary is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ACE Alliance Charter Elementary, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hoover Elementary. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Hoover Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 64.2%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Trend over the last 6 years. Over the past 6-year window, the student count shrank 23%: 246 students in 2018 compared to 189 in 2024. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 71% to 59% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, members of the Hoover Elementary community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.