Roosevelt Elementary School

Located at 828 S VALENCIA, in MESA, Arizona, Roosevelt Elementary School is a reasonably sized elementary school that educates 509 students (grades pre-K through 6), overseen by Mesa Unified District (4235).

Mesa Unified District (4235) comprises 81 schools with combined enrollment of 55,821 students; Roosevelt Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Roosevelt Elementary School reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (52%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder reads as 13% Black, 13% Native American, 10% White, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 31% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. That tracks the state average closely.

Across the wider county, Maricopa County reports that median household earnings sit near $89,300, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Roosevelt Elementary School is one of 1352 public schools in Maricopa County (combined enrollment of about 725,139 students).

Valley Preparatory Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt Elementary School.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School has declined 9%, going from 558 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 20% to 10%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 18.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.