Roosevelt School

Roosevelt School operates as a cozy primary school in YUMA, Arizona, run under Yuma Elementary District (4499). Current enrollment sits at 254 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Arizona's public schools average about 451 students each, so Roosevelt School sits 44% leaner than that benchmark.

Across the 19 schools in Yuma Elementary District (4499) (9,102 students total), Roosevelt School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Roosevelt School reports that nearly all students (89%) are Hispanic. Other groups include 3% White, 3% Black, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Yuma County as a whole is about 65% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Yuma County indicate median household earnings sit near $62,876, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Roosevelt School is one of 89 public schools in Yuma County (combined enrollment of about 38,800 students).

The closest other public school is Fourth Avenue Junior High School, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt School.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt School has decreased 4%, going from 265 students in 2018 to 254 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 in 2025.

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