Roosevelt Elementary

Located at 1554 Garner Ave., in San Bernardino, California, Roosevelt Elementary is a moderately sized K-5 school that serves 512 students (grades K through 3), operated by San Bernardino City Unified.

San Bernardino City Unified runs 72 schools in total, collectively educating 44,080 students. Roosevelt Elementary is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt Elementary reports that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. Other groups include 4% Black. By comparison, San Bernardino County as a whole is about 55% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 22.3:1, putting Roosevelt Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 95% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above San Bernardino County's rate of about 74%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 22.9%; this one delivers 28.1%.

Around the school, San Bernardino County reports that the typical household earns roughly $85,478 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across San Bernardino County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 393,648 students), Roosevelt Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Dr. Mildred Dalton Henry Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 20.6%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Over the past 7-year window. Roosevelt Elementary's enrollment has edged down 25% since 2018, when it stood at 683 (now 512). The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 23.6:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.

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