Theodore Roosevelt Elementary

Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is an elementary campus of average-sized scale in Indio, California, run under Desert Sands Unified, hosting 490 students in grades K through 5.

Across the 34 schools in Desert Sands Unified (25,613 students total), Theodore Roosevelt Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary reports that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic; the rest breaks down as 3% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 51%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 90% of students at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Riverside County runs at roughly 74%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 17.5%, a residual of -8.1 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Riverside County indicate median household earnings sit near $93,074, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is one of 543 public schools in Riverside County (combined enrollment of about 424,872 students).

The closest other public school is Thomas Jefferson Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Theodore Roosevelt Elementary. On composite proficiency, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 22.8%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 15%: 578 students in 2018 compared to 490 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.1:1 in 2018 to 22.3:1 in 2025.

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