Roosevelt Elementary

Located at 870 Davis St., in Hanford, California, Roosevelt Elementary is a mid-sized elementary campus that enrolls 490 students (grades K through 6), run under Hanford Elementary.

Hanford Elementary runs 12 schools in total, collectively educating 5,460 students. Roosevelt Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (84%). Beyond that, the school shows 6% White, 6% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 58% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 25.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Roosevelt Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 91% of students at Roosevelt Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is higher than Kings County's rate of about 74%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roosevelt Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 25.5%; this one delivers 36.2%.

Around the school, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $70,995, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. In all, Kings County runs 67 public schools (combined enrollment of about 28,742 students), of which Roosevelt Elementary is one.

Crossroads Charter Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 3rd of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.9%.

The school occupies an urban site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary has contracted 17%, going from 588 students in 2018 to 490 in 2025.

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