Summary:
Hoover-Schrum Memorial School District 157 has two schools serving prekindergarten through grade 8: Hoover Elementary School (PK–5) and Schrum Memorial School (grades 6–8). In 2025–2026, both schools’ reported all-grades English language arts (ELA) and math proficiency rates were below the state rates. The clearest area of concern is math: the schools were 22 and 28 points below the state, compared with ELA shortfalls of 19 and 9 points.
Which school stands out depends on the subject. Schrum Memorial had the higher reported ELA rate, at 47% compared with Hoover Elementary’s 37%—a 10-point difference; Schrum was 9 points below the state, while Hoover was 19 points below. In math, Hoover led with 18%, compared with Schrum’s 11%, a 6-point difference, though both were well below the 40% state rate. Science results were 22% for Hoover grade 5 and 33% for Schrum grade 8, so they are not a like-grade comparison.
Both schools improved in ELA and math from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, with ELA gains of 13 points at Hoover and 16 at Schrum, and math gains of 5 and 4 points, respectively. SchoolDigger rankings also edged up one percentile point at each school, but remained low: Hoover was at the 10th percentile with 0 stars, and Schrum at the 15th percentile with 1 star. For context, in school year 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students made up 35% of Hoover and 51% of Schrum; student-teacher ratios were 14.2 and 18.2, respectively. These measures distinguish the schools but do not establish what accounts for their results.
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