Roosevelt Elem School

Roosevelt Elem School is an elementary campus of medium-sized scale in Broadview, Illinois, run under Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89, works with 345 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Across the 9 schools in Maywood-Melrose Park-Broadview 89 (4,081 students total), Roosevelt Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, Roosevelt Elem School reports that Black students make up the majority at 67%. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Cook County as a whole is about 22% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school reports having 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.3:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 61% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roosevelt Elem School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 36.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 38.1%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Cook County shows the typical household earns roughly $83,498 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 10%. Across Cook County's 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), Roosevelt Elem School is one campus in the mix.

Garfield Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elem School comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elem School has decreased 6%, going from 366 students in 2018 to 345 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 14% to 29%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 in 2025.

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