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Alumni: what's one memory from Theodore Roosevelt Elementary that still sticks with you?
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Enrollment
490
Elementary
DISTRICT 573 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DESERT SANDS UNIFIED·NCES 061111001232
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary
83-200 Dr. Carreon Blvd., Indio, CA 92201 · (760) 775-3860 · Riverside County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL490 STUDENTS
D
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 9% of California public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- C-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.4:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
443 students
DISTRICT 79% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 100 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 64 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 96 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (100) is 22% larger than its 5th grade class (82).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
22.5%
CA avg 49.1% . -5.5pp since 2014
Math
17.9%
CA avg 37.7% . -2.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 22 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 18 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 2 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 7.6% | 14.9% | 22.1% | 55.4% |
| Math | 6.2% | 11.7% | 25.7% | 56.4% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 22.5% | 17.9% |
| 2023-24 | 18.6% | 15.9% |
| 2022-23 | 21.4% | 21.1% |
| 2021-22 | 27.3% | 16.7% |
| 2018-19 | 32.9% | 33.6% |
| 2017-18 | 37.2% | 28.7% |
| 2016-17 | 34.4% | 30.6% |
| 2015-16 | 33.0% | 20.0% |
| 2014-15 | 28.0% | 20.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
19.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
26.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-7.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 19% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 27% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among California's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Theodore Roosevelt Elementary
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary's state test result (19.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Theodore Roosevelt Elementary this school | 490 | 90.4% | 19.0% |
| Jefferson Elementary Sanger | 488 | 89.8% | 41.7% |
| Andrew Jackson Elementary Santa Ana | 493 | 91.1% | 28.4% |
| Frank Ledesma Elementary Soledad | 464 | 89.7% | 27.0% |
| Echo Valley Elementary Salinas | 502 | 89.2% | 18.8% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary Santa Ana | 468 | 91.9% | 18.3% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Theodore Roosevelt Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Riverside County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.0% | #4,650 of 5,151 | #254 of 283 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.9% | #4,491 of 5,172 ▲ 113 | #231 of 283 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.5% | #4,690 of 5,172 ▲ 142 | #264 of 283 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.8pp | #1,264 of 5,116 | #43 of 280 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 490 | #2,552 of 5,915 | #238 of 296 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 22.3:1 | #2,395 of 5,352 | #76 of 292 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 11.7% | #4,861 of 5,354 | #269 of 292 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.4% | #1,052 of 5,625 | #71 of 294 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.2% | #1,993 of 3,837 | #97 of 207 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
490
+7 (+1%) vs 2020
-30% since 1990-91, when it was 699
Student : Teacher
22.3:1
was 21.0:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 490 | 22 | 22.3:1 | 90% (443) |
| 2023-24 | 491 | 21.1 | 23.3:1 | 87% (429) |
| 2022-23 | 492 | 20 | 24.6:1 | 86% (425) |
| 2020-21 | 483 | 23 | 21.0:1 | 98% (473) |
| 2017-18 | 578 | 23 | 25.1:1 | 99% (571) |
| 2015-16 | 559 | 23 | 24.3:1 | 95% (532) |
| 2010-11 | 677 | N/A | N/A | 91% (617) |
| 2000-01 | 702 | 37 | 19.0:1 | 95% (669) |
| 1990-91 | 699 | 26 | 26.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Theodore Roosevelt Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (578 to 490); teachers down 4% (23 to 22).
About Theodore Roosevelt Elementary
A mid-sized elementary school in Indio, California, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is part of Desert Sands Unified. It offers kindergarten through 5 and has 490 students enrolled.
Desert Sands Unified counts 34 schools and 25,613 students, including Theodore Roosevelt Elementary.
Of every 100 students at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary, about 94 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 3% multiracial. Census figures show Riverside County is about 51% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 12, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 22.3:1 is based on 22 full-time-equivalent teachers. It is about the same as the 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California. In all, 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Riverside County, the average is 74%.
Among California public elementary schools, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary outscored 9%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary are 7.5 points below what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (19.0% actual, 26.6% predicted).
Census data for Riverside County show the median household earns about $93,074 a year, roughly 26% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Theodore Roosevelt Elementary, Riverside County has 543 public schools.
The closest school to Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is Thomas Jefferson Middle, located about 0.4 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Of 7 schools in the immediate area with test results, Theodore Roosevelt Elementary ranks 4th on average proficiency.
For locale, NCES codes Theodore Roosevelt Elementary as Suburb: Large.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 483 to 490. The ratio was 21.0:1 in 2020-21 and 22.3:1 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Riverside County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,478,600
Census ACS
Median income
$93,074
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
26%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
543
424,872 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Desert Sands Unified
- La Quinta HighHigh · 2,425 students
- Palm Desert HighHigh · 2,079 students
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- Palm Desert Charter MiddleMiddle · 1,298 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
Other schools in Indio
- Indio HighHigh · 1,962 students
- Shadow Hills HighHigh · 1,650 students
- John Glenn Middle School of International StudiesMiddle · 1,099 students
- Desert Ridge AcademyMiddle · 962 students
- Indio MiddleMiddle · 768 students
- Andrew Jackson ElementaryElementary · 750 students
Other Theodore Roosevelt Elementary schools
6 other US public schools in 5 states are named Theodore Roosevelt Elementary. Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is the 5th largest of the 7.
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementarySelma, CA · 634 students
- Theodore Roosevelt ElementaryBurbank, CA · 591 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolUNION CITY, NJ · 871 students
- Theodore Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPark Ridge, IL · 677 students
- THEODORE ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCOCOA BEACH, FL · 275 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas Jefferson Middle0.4 mi · 591
- Martin Van Buren Elementary0.9 mi · 533
- Desert Sands A.T.L.A.S.1.2 mi · 69
- Dr. Reynaldo J. Carreon Jr. Academy1.2 mi · 592
- Amistad High (Continuation)1.2 mi · 192
- Indio High1.5 mi · 1,962
Frequently asked questions
About Theodore Roosevelt ElementaryHow large is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary enrolls approximately 490 students in grades KG-05.
Is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary?
Approximately 22.3:1 students per teacher at Theodore Roosevelt Elementary.
How diverse is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary reports a student body of 1% White, 94% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is Theodore Roosevelt Elementary public or private?
Theodore Roosevelt Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Desert Sands Unified.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.