Enrollment
335
Elementary
DISTRICT 332 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ALLIS-WEST MILWAUKEE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551626002105
Hoover Elementary
12705 W Euclid Ave, New Berlin, WI 53151 · (414) 604-3810 · Waukesha County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL335 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 23% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
188 students
DISTRICT 63% · STATE 42%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 55 | 16% |
| Kindergarten | 47 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 40 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 50 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (47) is 6% smaller than its 5th grade class (50).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 54% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
41.5%
WI avg 53.1% . +4.4pp since 2023
Math
37.7%
WI avg 54.8% . +1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 42 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 41.5% | 37.7% |
| 2023-24 | 37.1% | 36.4% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. 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
42.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.2%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 43% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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
Hoover Elementary's state test result (42.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hoover Elementary this school | 335 | 56.1% | 42.5% |
| Red Apple School Racine | 354 | 59.3% | 35.2% |
| Pier Elementary Fond du Lac | 274 | 61.7% | 40.0% |
| Irving Elementary West Allis | 375 | 59.5% | 42.6% |
| Emerson Elementary Madison | 297 | 54.2% | 49.1% |
| Orchard Ridge Elementary Madison | 265 | 52.1% | 43.8% |
Matched among Wisconsin 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 ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Waukesha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 42.5% | #738 of 982 | #52 of 56 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.7% | #760 of 992 ▲ 20 | #53 of 56 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 41.5% | #712 of 992 ▲ 67 | #52 of 56 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 335 | #506 of 1,157 | #44 of 65 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #462 of 901 | #20 of 60 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 70.5% | #69 of 901 | #1 of 60 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.1% | #323 of 1,064 | #4 of 63 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.7% | #356 of 664 | #17 of 27 |
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
335
-35 (-9%) vs 2020
-33% since 1990-91, when it was 498
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 335 | 25.2 | 13.3:1 | 56% (188) |
| 2023-24 | 327 | 25.2 | 13.0:1 | 48% (157) |
| 2022-23 | 357 | 25.4 | 14.1:1 | 62% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 370 | 26 | 14.2:1 | 55% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 388 | 26.2 | 14.8:1 | 39% (150) |
| 2015-16 | 395 | 28 | 14.1:1 | 42% (166) |
| 2010-11 | 417 | 28 | 14.9:1 | 40% (167) |
| 2000-01 | 489 | 30 | 16.3:1 | 22% (106) |
| 1990-91 | 498 | 32 | 15.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Hoover Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (388 to 335); teachers down 4% (26.2 to 25.2).
About Hoover Elementary
Hoover Elementary operates as a mid-sized elementary school in New Berlin, Wisconsin. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 335 students.
Hoover Elementary is run by West Allis-West Milwaukee School District, whose 16 schools enroll 6,619 students.
The student body at Hoover Elementary has no majority group. White students lead at 44%. Enrollment also includes 22% Hispanic, 21% Black, 9% multiracial, and 4% Asian. The school's White share is 43 points below the 87% share among Waukesha County residents. A diversity index of 70% means there is a 70% chance two randomly chosen students at Hoover Elementary are from different groups.
Staffing at Hoover Elementary comes to 25.2 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 13.3:1. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. On the income side, 56% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Waukesha County average 17%.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Hoover Elementary outscored 23%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
Hoover Elementary scores 42.5% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 43.2%.
American Community Survey estimates for Waukesha County show that the median household earns about $106,076 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 49%, and roughly 3% of residents are in poverty. Across Waukesha County, 113 public schools serve about 60,032 students.
Hoover Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Nathan Hale High, about 1.4 miles away. The five-mile area around Hoover Elementary holds at least 8 other public schools. Hoover Elementary ranks 7th of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 42.5% against a local average of 48.9%.
Federal data place Hoover Elementary in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 370 students in 2020-21, enrollment decreased to 335 by 2024-25.
This page collects posts and questions about Hoover Elementary, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Waukesha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
411,762
Census ACS
Median income
$106,076
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
49%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
3%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
60,032 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Allis-West Milwaukee School District
- Nathan Hale HighHigh · 1,134 students
- Central HighHigh · 961 students
- Frank Lloyd Wright IntermediateMiddle · 902 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 393 students
- Horace Mann ElementaryElementary · 384 students
- West Milwaukee IntermediateMiddle · 378 students
Other schools in New Berlin
- Eisenhower Middle/HighHigh · 1,095 students
- New Berlin West Middle/HighHigh · 1,036 students
- Ronald Reagan ElementaryElementary · 669 students
- Elmwood ElementaryElementary · 567 students
- Poplar Creek ElementaryElementary · 514 students
- Orchard Lane ElementaryElementary · 453 students
Other Hoover Elementary schools
26 other US public schools in 12 states are named Hoover Elementary. Hoover Elementary is the 16th largest of the 27.
- Hoover ElementaryNeenah, WI · 189 students
- Hoover ElementaryRedwood City, CA · 675 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolLanghorne, PA · 661 students
- Hoover Elementary SchoolKATY, TX · 660 students
- Hoover ElementaryStockton, CA · 654 students
Nearby schools
- Nathan Hale High1.4 mi · 1,134
- Eisenhower Middle/High1.8 mi · 1,095
- Mitchell Elementary1.8 mi · 267
- Orchard Lane Elementary1.8 mi · 453
- Alcott Elementary1.9 mi · 264
- Irving Elementary2.1 mi · 375
Frequently asked questions
About Hoover ElementaryHow large is Hoover Elementary?
Hoover Elementary enrolls approximately 335 students in grades PK-05.
Is Hoover Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Hoover Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Hoover Elementary have?
Hoover Elementary employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 13.3:1.
How diverse is Hoover Elementary?
Hoover Elementary reports a student body of 44% White, 22% Hispanic, 21% Black, 4% Asian, 9% Two or more.
Is Hoover Elementary public or private?
Hoover Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Allis-West Milwaukee School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.