Roosevelt Middle

Located at 850 Sagewood Dr., in Oceanside, California, Roosevelt Middle is a middle-of-the-pack middle-grades school that works with 866 students (grades 6 through 8), part of Vista Unified. By comparison, California's public schools average about 659 students each, so Roosevelt Middle sits 31% bigger than that benchmark.

Vista Unified runs 28 schools in total, collectively educating 18,969 students. Roosevelt Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Roosevelt Middle reports that 74% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 15% White, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 35%.

In terms of school funding signals, Roosevelt Middle lists 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 78% of students at Roosevelt Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, San Diego County runs at roughly 54%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.3%; this one delivers 28.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (San Diego County) records that the typical household earns roughly $106,268 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Roosevelt Middle is one of 766 public schools in San Diego County (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students).

Nearest neighbor: Alamosa Park Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt Middle. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Roosevelt Middle at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 45.7%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Middle has decreased 19%, going from 1,069 students in 2018 to 866 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 63% to 74% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.9:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

On this page, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.