Roosevelt Elementary

As a close-knit K-5 school in San Gabriel, California, Roosevelt Elementary teaches 365 students from grades K through 5, overseen by San Gabriel Unified. Compared to the state average of about 465 students per school, that is 22% smaller than typical.

Roosevelt Elementary is one of 8 schools operated by San Gabriel Unified, a district that educates 4,482 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt Elementary lists that 65% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest comes out to 28% Asian, 3% multiracial, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 48% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Roosevelt Elementary has 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 87% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Los Angeles County (around 70%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Roosevelt Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.4%; this one delivers 28.1%.

In the area at large, Los Angeles County reports that median household earnings sit near $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. In all, Los Angeles County runs 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), of which Roosevelt Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Jefferson Middle, around 0.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 59.0%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 11%: 408 students in 2018 compared to 365 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 71% to 65% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 24.7:1 in 2018 to 20.3:1 in 2025.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. Members of the school community can share what they know.