Summary:
ZIP code 91202 has one listed high school, Herbert Hoover High, serving grades 9–12 and enrolling 1,590 students. With only one school in the area, there is no school-to-school comparison; the figures below compare the school with Glendale Unified and California. In 2025–2026, all-grade ELA proficiency was 51% at the school versus 49% statewide, and science was 35% versus 36%. The clearest academic concern is math: proficiency was 30%, 9 percentage points below the state.
The school’s completion outcomes compare favorably with the state, while attendance and some grade-level results call for attention. Its 2025–2026 graduation rate was 95%, compared with 88% statewide, and its dropout rate was 2%, versus 8% statewide. However, chronic absenteeism was 25%—7 percentage points above the state and 13 points above the district. Grade 11 results were below state results in all three subjects: ELA by 7 points, math by 2, and science by 2. The supplied grade 12 science result is 0%, compared with 33% statewide, a striking contrast with the school’s other science results.
Scores improved in all three subjects from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, by about 1 percentage point each: ELA rose from 50% to 51%, math from 29% to 30%, and science from 34% to 35%. The state’s science result rose faster, moving the school from 2 points above the state to 1 point below. SchoolDigger ranks the school 882nd of 2,137, at the 59th percentile, with 3 stars; its rank was 911th in 2023–2024 and 833rd in 2024–2025. Context figures include a 22.3 student–teacher ratio and 54% of students free/reduced lunch eligible in 2024–2025; these describe the school, but do not explain its results.
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