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What's the most underrated thing about Roosevelt STEAM Academy that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
531
Elementary
DISTRICT 417 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ELKHART COMMUNITY SCHOOLS·NCES 180327000444
Roosevelt STEAM Academy
201 W Wolf Ave, Elkhart, IN 46516 · (574) 295-4840 · Elkhart County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL531 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 12% of Indiana 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.
- DBeats 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 Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
33 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.2:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
300 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 64 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 86 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 80 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 89 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (64) is 28% smaller than its 6th grade class (89).
Student demographics
55%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 67% · STATE 57% · 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
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
22.3%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
24.7%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 22 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 Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. 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
23.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.6%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 24% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 36% typical for Indiana 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 Indiana'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 Roosevelt STEAM Academy
Roosevelt STEAM Academy's state test result (23.7% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt STEAM Academy this school | 531 | 56.5% | 23.7% |
| Anderson Elementary School Anderson | 496 | 58.7% | 8.1% |
| Clarence Farrington School 61 - an Exploratory School Indianapolis | 451 | 58.5% | 8.3% |
| Mary Beck Elementary School Elkhart | 385 | 54.5% | 8.2% |
| Carl Wilde School 79 Center For Inquiry - an Inquiry School Indianapolis | 472 | 58.1% | 14.7% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary School Hammond | 565 | 61.2% | 13.6% |
Matched among Indiana 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 STEAM Academy ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Indiana | In Elkhart County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #801 of 983 | #30 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 24.7% | #817 of 986 | #32 of 36 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 22.3% | #809 of 986 | #31 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 531 | #304 of 1,079 | #5 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.3:1 | #711 of 991 | #23 of 37 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.5% | #370 of 996 | #19 of 37 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.5% | #445 of 1,058 | #17 of 38 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -9.8% | #351 of 597 | #18 of 28 |
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
531
+85 (+19%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 554
Student : Teacher
16.3:1
was 10.6:1
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 | 531 | 32.5 | 16.3:1 | 56% (300) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 30.5 | 17.3:1 | 63% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 524 | 32.8 | 16.0:1 | 83% (435) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 42 | 10.6:1 | 68% (304) |
| 2017-18 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 90% (530) |
| 2015-16 | 657 | 32 | 20.5:1 | 73% (480) |
| 2010-11 | 620 | 28 | 22.1:1 | 95% (586) |
| 2000-01 | 572 | 37 | 15.5:1 | 67% (384) |
| 1990-91 | 554 | 32 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt STEAM Academy.
About Roosevelt STEAM Academy
Roosevelt STEAM Academy is a mid-sized elementary school in Elkhart, Indiana, one of the schools in Elkhart Community Schools. The school enrolls 531 students in pre-K through 6. That compares with an average of about 436 students for elementary schools in Indiana.
Elkhart Community Schools runs 19 schools with a combined 10,640 students. Roosevelt STEAM Academy is one of them.
Federal enrollment data show Roosevelt STEAM Academy is 63% Hispanic. Other groups include 17% Black, 14% White, and 5% multiracial. The county population is about 20% Hispanic. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 55%.
There are 32.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Roosevelt STEAM Academy, giving a ratio of 16.3:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Indiana is 15.5:1. A total of 300 students, or 56%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Among Indiana public elementary schools, Roosevelt STEAM Academy outscored 12%, which works out to a D on the allk12 Grade.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, Roosevelt STEAM Academy falls in the middle 80% of Indiana schools: 23.7% actual against 35.6% predicted.
Census data for Elkhart County show median household income comes to about $68,561, about 20% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 9% of residents are in poverty. There are 60 public schools in the county, enrolling about 33,574, Roosevelt STEAM Academy among them.
Of the public schools around it, Roosevelt STEAM Academy is closest to Pierre Moran Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 19.7%; Roosevelt STEAM Academy's is 23.7%, ranking 3rd of 7.
The federal government classifies Roosevelt STEAM Academy's location as City: Small.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 531, up from 446 in 2020-21. Students per teacher increased from 10.6 in 2020-21 to 16.3 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for Roosevelt STEAM Academy is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Elkhart County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
207,132
Census ACS
Median income
$68,561
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
20%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
60
33,574 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Elkhart Community Schools
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- North Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 563 students
- Cleveland Elementary SchoolElementary · 519 students
- Pinewood Elementary SchoolElementary · 503 students
- Mary Daly Elementary SchoolElementary · 476 students
Other schools in Elkhart
- Elkhart High SchoolHigh · 3,073 students
- Concord Community High SchoolHigh · 1,727 students
- Concord Junior High SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- Concord Intermediate SchoolMiddle · 756 students
- Jimtown Intermediate SchoolElementary · 580 students
- West Side Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
Nearby schools
- Pierre Moran Middle School0.2 mi · 396
- Hawthorne Early Learning Center0.4 mi · 156
- Mary Beck Elementary School0.7 mi · 385
- Elkhart Alternative Education0.8 mi · 205
- Premier Arts Academy0.8 mi · 286
- Monger Elementary School1.1 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt STEAM AcademyHow large is Roosevelt STEAM Academy?
Roosevelt STEAM Academy enrolls approximately 531 students in grades PK-06.
What grades does Roosevelt STEAM Academy serve?
Roosevelt STEAM Academy serves grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Roosevelt STEAM Academy have?
Roosevelt STEAM Academy employs 33 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roosevelt STEAM Academy?
At Roosevelt STEAM Academy, the student body is approximately 14% White, 63% Hispanic, 17% Black, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees Roosevelt STEAM Academy?
Roosevelt STEAM Academy is overseen by Elkhart Community Schools in Elkhart County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.