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HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
HOOVER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Named in honor of Herbert Hoover, first President of the United States born west of the [[MISSISSIPPI RIVE]R (West Branch, Iowa). At its dedication ceremony on November 17, 1968, a set of books and bust of Herbert Hoover were donated to the school by the Hoover family; Hoover Foundation on War, Revolution, and Peace at Stanford University; and the Hoover Foundation in West Branch, Iowa.
The school was noted at the time for its innovative design. Classrooms were located in two octagonal-shaped clusters around learning centers. There were no doors between the learning center and the rooms. Few permanent walls separated the individual classrooms at either the primary or intermediate levels. In 1968 Hoover School became Iowa's first elementary school to use the innovative Science Curriculum Improvement Study (SCIS) science program published by Rand McNally and eventually the basis of the district's science program. In 1973 the building was the first in the DUBUQUE COMMUNITY SCHOOL DISTRICT to pilot a program for the talented and gifted.