Herbert Hoover High School is a public high school in Glendale, California, USA. The school is named after Herbert Hoover, the 31st president of the United States and is located on an campus. The school's colors are purple and white. Hoover High School is part of a neighborhood cluster that includes Mark Keppel Elementary School and Eleanor J. Toll Middle School. As of the 2020-21 school year, Hoover High School has an enrollment rate of 1,431 students. History The school's original campus, on Glenwood Road, opened in 1929. Named after Herbert Hoover, the school was built to serve the northern Foothill area of Glendale, which had experienced rapid development in the 1920s. The first issue of the school yearbook, Scroll, included copies of letters written by Hoover and his wife, Lou. The school dedicated that issue to Hoover. The school has been the setting for several television programs and movies, most notably Because They're Young, which was filmed at the campus during the summer recess in 1959. The original campus, with the exception of the auditorium and physical education facilities, was demolished in 1966 and replaced with a new facility, which was completed in 1969. In 1990, due to continual and anticipated growth in the number of students entering Hoover High, a 33-classroom facility was built and completed in 1992. In 2001, Hoover High School met its school wide Academic Performance Index (API) and has received over $150,000 in Governor's Incentive Award money. For the past two years, 40% of the graduating seniors planned to attend a four-year college. Some 44.4% of graduating seniors meet the University of California A-G requirements. Hoover High School offers 22 different Advanced Placement (AP) classes which span a wide variety of disciplines including history, English language and literature, science, foreign language, math, economics, art, psychology, and computer programming. In 2010, Hoover High School met its school wide API target with an overall API of 772; an eleven-point gain over 2009. Hoover High's API has grown 158 points in the last 10 years. Fifty students earned recognition from the College Board as "AP Scholars". Another 15 earned the "AP Scholar with Honor" designation and 20 students earned the honor of "AP Scholar with Distinction." In 2013, Hoover started offering one AP class for 9th graders for human geography, being one of the first high schools to do so. Demographics As of the 2022-2023 school year,