Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary is one of the medium-sized elementary-level communitys in Fresno, California, part of Central Unified, with 489 students on its rolls from grades K through 6.

Roosevelt Elementary is one of 24 schools operated by Central Unified, a district that instructs 15,956 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment; the rest consists of 13% Asian, 11% White, 6% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 24.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 87% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Fresno County's rate of about 75%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roosevelt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.7%, the actual is 18.1%, a residual of -9.7 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Fresno County's 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), Roosevelt Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Justin Garza High, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 33.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Roosevelt Elementary's enrollment has stayed largely flat since 2018, when it stood at 490 (now 489). Black enrollment moved from 13% to 6% across the same window.

In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.