Roosevelt Middle

Roosevelt Middle is a tight-knit 6-8 campus in Oakland, California, part of Oakland Unified. The school enrolls 512 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 22% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Roosevelt Middle is one of 84 schools operated by Oakland Unified, a district that caters to 33,973 students overall.

Demographically, Roosevelt Middle lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 47%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 27% Asian, 17% Black, 5% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Roosevelt Middle reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 20.7:1, putting Roosevelt Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 97% of students at Roosevelt Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Alameda County runs at roughly 49%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roosevelt Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 21.5%, the actual is 18.5%, a residual of -3.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Alameda County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $129,367 per year, 52% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Alameda County's 394 public schools (combined enrollment of about 210,511 students), Roosevelt Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Garfield Elementary, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt Middle. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Middle comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 22.9%.

Roosevelt Middle operates from a metropolitan location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Middle has fell 7%, going from 548 students in 2018 to 512 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 43% to 27% across the same window. Class-load math has tightened: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 in 2025.

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