NCES CCD 2024-25 16 schools AL

Best-Resourced Schools in Hoover, AL

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16 public K-12 schools in Hoover from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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16
Schools
13,632
Students
39.6/100
Avg Resource Index
14.5:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Hoover has more public-school enrollment than 87% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Hoover sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

10 of Hoover's 16 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 14-point gap between Ira F Simmons Middle School and Hoover High School shows the range hidden by Hoover's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 13%
School count
Top 21%
Resource Index average
44th percentile
Teacher staffing
61st percentile

Hoover High School accounts for 21.4% of all Hoover public-school enrollment

That concentration means Hoover-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hoover school enrollment varies 8.9× across entities

Hoover school enrollment ranges from 328 students (lowest) to 2,919 students (highest), a spread of 2,591 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hoover operates one school district — a single-district system

Hoover's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data NCES Common Core of Data

Hoover student-teacher ratio is 14.5:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Hoover is typically wider than the Hoover-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Ira F Simmons Middle School 49
2. Shades Mountain Elementary School 46
3. Robert F Bumpus Middle School 43
4. Riverchase Elementary School 41
5. Greystone Elementary School 41
6. Rocky Ridge Elementary School 39
7. South Shades Crest Elementary School 39
8. Brocks Gap Intermediate School 39
9. Gwin Elementary School 39
10. Green Valley Elementary School 39
11. Deer Valley Elementary School 38
12. Berry Middle School 37
13. Trace Crossings Elementary School 37
14. Bluff Park Elementary School 37
15. Hoover High School 35
16. Spain Park High School 35

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Hoover

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Trace Crossings Elementary School 71.3/100
  2. 2 Green Valley Elementary School 69.9/100
  3. 3 Riverchase Elementary School 69.4/100
  4. 4 Gwin Elementary School 66.5/100
  5. 5 Hoover High School 65.6/100

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Which Hoover school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Ira F Simmons Middle School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Hoover schools in this federal-data comparison at 49/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Hoover, AL? ▼

Hoover has 16 public schools with a total enrollment of 13,632 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 14.5:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.