Roosevelt Elem School

Roosevelt Elem School is a primary school of modestly sized scale in Belleville, Illinois, operated by Belleville SD 118, works with 272 students in grades K through 6. That puts it 29% below the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Belleville SD 118 comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 3,275 students; Roosevelt Elem School is among them.

On demographics, Roosevelt Elem School logs that the most-represented group is White (40%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 38% Black, 10% multiracial, 10% Hispanic. By comparison, St. Clair County as a whole is about 60% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Roosevelt Elem School has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 58% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.2%, the actual is 51.1%, a residual of +12.9 points.

Around the school, St. Clair County reports that the typical household earns roughly $73,854 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, St. Clair County runs 96 public schools (combined enrollment of about 40,879 students), of which Roosevelt Elem School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Henry Raab Elem School, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elem School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 38.9%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Roosevelt Elem School's enrollment has contracted 21% since 2018, when it stood at 343 (now 272). White enrollment moved from 56% to 40% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.6:1 in 2025.

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