Hoover was built on a 70-acre school site south of Sooner Park which was purchased in 1958 for $55,000. The acreage was also used for the original Madison Middle School and Sooner High; the latter later became Bartlesville Mid-High and eventually the new home for Madison.

Hoover itself originally cost $181,568 and a 1961 addition was built for $162,666. The school was designed for 250 students but had 400 students by the 1990s, using a multitude of portable buildings.

A 1993 bond issue provided $2,779,087 for several new classrooms as well as a new library, computer and science labs, cafeteria, and gymnasium. A new roof and parking area were also included, as well as a drainage system to alleviate the effects of a stream running through the site. A phone system upgrade occurred in 2000. A secure entrance was constructed in the summer of 2013, along with resurfacing of a parking lot.

In 2017 the interior finishes were reworked and new exterior panels installed on the gymnasium.

Map & Table

• Early Schools

• District Beginnings

• Garfield

• Horace Mann (ESC)

• Washington

• Highland Park

• Jefferson

• Original High School

• Douglass

• Lincoln

• Central

• McCaleb / Roosevelt

• McKinley

• Carnegie

• Doenges Stadium

• Shawnee Field (Transportation & Maintenance)

• Limestone

• Bartlesville High School (College High)

• Buck Creek

• Jane Phillips

• Southview

• Will Rogers

• Oak Park

• Ranch Heights

• Wilson

• Original Madison

• Hoover

• Wayside

• Madison (Mid-High; Sooner High)

• Richard Kane