Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary, a moderately sized elementary-level community in Santa Monica, California, overseen by Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, teaches 552 students, covering grades K through 5.

Roosevelt Elementary is one of 15 schools operated by Santa Monica-Malibu Unified, a district that works with 8,616 students overall.

Demographically, Roosevelt Elementary lists that 55% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school logs 19% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% multiracial, 6% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County as a whole is about 31% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Roosevelt Elementary shows 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.3:1. The state averages around 22.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Los Angeles County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

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 67.5%, the actual is 74.0%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Los Angeles County indicate the typical household earns roughly $90,112 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Los Angeles County's 2244 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,265,907 students), Roosevelt Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Roosevelt Elementary at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 74.3%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary has fell 30%, going from 788 students in 2018 to 552 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 72% to 55%. Class-load math has fell: from 23.9:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.