Hoover to be New Home for IB Diploma at DMPS

Big news for Hoover High School: we are the new home for the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme at DMPS! Students will be able to begin pursuing the IB diploma in August 2019. Click the headline more about this change and the growth of our Hoover-Meredith IB campus.

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Best Buddies Halloween Bash

Every year Hoover hosts the first Best Buddies event of the year.  We had our Best Buddies Halloween Bash last Sunday from 12 – 2  here at Hoover in the large gym.  There were 5 metro schools with around 100 people …

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Hoover Yearbook Awards

The Hoover 2017-2018 yearbook came home with eight awards from the Iowa High School Press Association Fall Conference.  Seniors Ana Marquez Callabero, Maddie Freeman-Grosland and graduate Emma Andrew received awards in photography. Senior Katie Burns received recognition for her …

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Winter Sports Family Meeting

There will be a family meeting for anyone interested in participating in winter sports on Wednesday, Oct. 24th @ 6 pm in the auditorium. Winter sports include boys & girls basketball, boys swimming, wrestling and boys & girls …

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Suarez Honored by IA World Language Assoc.

Hoover High School Spanish teacher Karina Suarez Luna was named a 2018 Teacher of Promise by the Iowa World Language Association at the IWLA’s fall conference on the DMACC Ankeny Campus on October 13th. Click on the headline to learn more about her work at DMPS.

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Hoover’s Fall Play

Hoover Drama presented She Kills Monsters October 18, 19, & 20 at 7pm in the Denis Hildreth Auditorium at Hoover High School.  Congrats to the students who put in long hours and worked as a team to  successfully present …

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Hoover, Drake Partnership Expands to Entrepreneurship

Hoover High School’s STEM Research Methods class engaged with Drake University students around entrepreneurship and innovation today. Students built off of a previous work session to design business models from their research project uses of the barley plant, with ideas ranging from creating cereal to making pillows. See how this partnership between Hoover and Drake is getting students to see how STEM is also $TEM. Click the headline to read more.

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Senior Information

Herff Jones will be Hoover’s representative for caps and gowns for seniors.   Make sure you have received your packet from last week’s senior meeting that has all of this information.  IF you have not, there are more in …

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HOOVER STUDENTS BREAK THE CODE

In partnership with the local Pi515 organization, Hoover students are being taught the skills and mindsets needed for success in the tech world.  Once a week, nearly 30 students participate in programming that exposes them to coding, innovation …

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HOOVER STEM & DRAKE U. PARNTER FOR INNOVATION

Hoover’s STEM Academy Research Methods I class partnered with several students from Drake U. as part of an entrepreneurship and innovation initiative.  Drake students – all of whom own their own businesses – helped the Hoover Research I …

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