Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary is a K-5 school of expansive scale in Long Beach, California, overseen by Long Beach Unified, hosting 785 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, California's public schools average about 465 students each, so Roosevelt Elementary sits 69% bigger than that benchmark.

Long Beach Unified runs 82 schools in total, collectively educating 62,255 students. Roosevelt Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Roosevelt Elementary records that 77% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest consists of 13% Black, 6% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.7:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Roosevelt Elementary higher than the state norm the norm. About 89% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roosevelt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 26.3%, the actual is 31.9%, a residual of +5.6 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Los Angeles County) reports that median household income runs about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Roosevelt Elementary is one of 2244 public schools in Los Angeles County (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students).

Polytechnic High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 26%: 1,059 students in 2018 compared to 785 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 83% to 77% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 29.0:1 in 2018 to 25.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.