Enrollment
353
Elementary
DISTRICT 200 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHICAGO HEIGHTS SD 170·NCES 170996001225
Roosevelt Elementary School
1345 Sunnyside Ave, Chicago Heights, IL 60411 · (708) 756-4836 · Cook County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL353 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of Illinois public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.7:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.4:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
349 students
DISTRICT 97% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 41 | 12% |
| Kindergarten | 48 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 57 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 51 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (61).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · STATE 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Roosevelt Elementary School→Chicago Heights Middle School
Based on grade levels within Chicago Heights SD 170. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
42.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +7.4pp since 2023
Math
24.8%
IL avg 37.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 42.6% | 24.8% |
| 2023-24 | 35.2% | 18.2% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
33.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 19 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School's state test result (33.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 353 | 98.9% | 33.6% |
| Fulton Elementary School Chicago | 321 | 98.1% | 12.7% |
| Christopher Elementary School Chicago | 315 | 95.9% | 17.0% |
| Woodland Elementary School Joliet | 368 | 95.1% | 19.7% |
| West Park Elementary Academy Chicago | 442 | 97.7% | 23.4% |
| Isaac Singleton Elementary School Joliet | 304 | 95.1% | 18.9% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Roosevelt Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.6% | #1,139 of 1,925 | #340 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.8% | #1,464 of 2,077 ▼ 200 | #464 of 829 ▼ 71 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 42.6% | #1,265 of 2,077 ▼ 291 | #421 of 829 ▼ 105 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 353 | #1,246 of 2,419 | #514 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.7:1 | #1,469 of 2,035 | #644 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 33.6% | #1,311 of 2,042 | #488 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 98.9% | #50 of 2,132 | #31 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.5% | #165 of 1,461 | #102 of 661 |
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
353
+11 (+3%) vs 2020
+16% since 1990-91, when it was 304
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 | 353 | 24 | 14.7:1 | 99% (349) |
| 2023-24 | 348 | 21 | 16.6:1 | 99% (346) |
| 2022-23 | 356 | 21 | 16.9:1 | 99% (354) |
| 2020-21 | 342 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 508 | 31 | 16.4:1 | 99% (505) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 27 | 18.4:1 | 43% (211) |
| 2010-11 | 516 | 24 | 21.5:1 | 94% (483) |
| 2000-01 | 368 | 18 | 20.4:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 304 | 15 | 20.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (508 to 353); teachers down 23% (31 to 24).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Located in Chicago Heights, Illinois, Roosevelt Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school. Enrollment is 353 students in 2024-25, and the school serves pre-K through 5.
Chicago Heights SD 170 has a total of 10 schools and 2,674 students, Roosevelt Elementary School among them.
A majority of students at Roosevelt Elementary School, 80%, are Hispanic. Beyond that, enrollment is 16% Black and 3% White. The Hispanic share of the county population is lower, at 27%. Roosevelt Elementary School has a diversity index of 34%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Its 24 full-time-equivalent teachers give the school a ratio of 14.7:1. That ratio is over the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 99%. That is higher than the 66% average for public schools in Cook County.
The allk12 Grade for Roosevelt Elementary School is B. Compared with Illinois public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 62% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Given its lunch-eligibility share, the predicted average proficiency rate on state tests for Roosevelt Elementary School is 14.4%. It actually posts 33.6%, which is 19.2 points higher and in the top 10% of Illinois schools.
Census estimates describe Cook County this way: median household income is about $83,498, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 10% of residents are in poverty. The public schools of Cook County number 1,406 and enroll about 697,934.
The school nearest to Roosevelt Elementary School is Chicago Heights Middle School, at a distance of about 0.5 miles. Within five miles of Roosevelt Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. On average proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary School is 2nd of 8 nearby schools with test data.
In the federal locale system, Roosevelt Elementary School is coded Suburb: Large, for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Roosevelt Elementary School had 342 students in 2020-21 and 353 in 2024-25, a 3% increase.
Posts about school safety, transportation, and start times are welcome on this page. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chicago Heights SD 170
- Chicago Heights Middle SchoolMiddle · 872 students
- Washington-McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolElementary · 193 students
- Greenbriar Elementary SchoolElementary · 174 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolElementary · 160 students
Other schools in Chicago Heights
- Bloom High SchoolHigh · 1,823 students
- Bloom Trail High SchoolHigh · 1,218 students
- Barack Obama School of LdershipMiddle · 367 students
- Serena Hills Elementary SchoolElementary · 305 students
- Washington-McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 286 students
- Garfield Elementary SchoolElementary · 248 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 53rd largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolMoline, IL · 384 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolBroadview, IL · 345 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolBelleville, IL · 272 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolDolton, IL · 248 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 785 students
Nearby schools
- Chicago Heights Middle School0.5 mi · 872
- Wilson Elementary School0.6 mi · 160
- Washington-McKinley Elementary School0.6 mi · 286
- Bloom High School0.7 mi · 1,823
- Kennedy Elementary School0.8 mi · 193
- Barack Obama School of Ldership0.8 mi · 367
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 353 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Roosevelt Elementary School serve?
Roosevelt Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Approximately 14.7:1 students per teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School.
How diverse is Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 80% Hispanic, 16% Black, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School is overseen by Chicago Heights SD 170 in Cook County.
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