ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL

ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL, a mid-sized junior high in WEST PALM BEACH, Florida, operated by PALM BEACH, hosts 793 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

PALM BEACH comprises 233 schools with combined enrollment of 191,505 students; ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL reports that Black students make up the majority at 61%; the rest breaks down as 35% Hispanic, 2% White. By comparison, Palm Beach County as a whole is about 19% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Around 73% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Palm Beach County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, Palm Beach County reports that the typical household earns roughly $83,581 per year, 41% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 245 public schools in Palm Beach County (combined enrollment of about 192,831 students).

Nearest neighbor: UNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY PALM BEACH, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 36.0%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOL has shrank 24%, going from 1,048 students in 2018 to 793 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 20% to 35% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.2:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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