Roosevelt Junior High

Roosevelt Junior High, an average-sized middle school in Modesto, California, one of the schools within Modesto City Elementary, teaches 818 students, covering grades 7 through 8. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

Within Modesto City Elementary, which oversees 26 schools and 14,444 students, Roosevelt Junior High is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Roosevelt Junior High shows that 58% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 20% White, 11% multiracial, 6% Asian, 3% Black. By comparison, Stanislaus County as a whole is about 50% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 38 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 21.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 75% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Roosevelt Junior High sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.0%; this one delivers 30.8%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Stanislaus County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $81,468 per year, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. Across Stanislaus County's 190 public schools (combined enrollment of about 106,477 students), Roosevelt Junior High is one campus in the mix.

John Fremont Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roosevelt Junior High ranks 4th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 33.1%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Junior High has declined 8%, going from 889 students in 2018 to 818 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 28% to 20% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 24.9:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, members of the Roosevelt Junior High community share and discuss school events, parent volunteer needs, and clubs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.