Roosevelt STEAM Academy

Roosevelt STEAM Academy is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Elkhart, Indiana, run under Elkhart Community Schools, with 531 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6. That puts it 22% larger than the typical public school in Indiana, which averages around 436 students.

Within Elkhart Community Schools, which oversees 19 schools and 10,640 students, Roosevelt STEAM Academy is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt STEAM Academy records that Hispanic students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder reads as 17% Black, 14% White, 5% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 56% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Roosevelt STEAM Academy sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 35.6%; this one delivers 23.7%.

In the surrounding community, Elkhart County reports that median household income runs about $68,561, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, Elkhart County runs 60 public schools (combined enrollment of about 33,574 students), of which Roosevelt STEAM Academy is one.

The closest other public school is Pierre Moran Middle School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt STEAM Academy comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 19.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt STEAM Academy has declined 10%, going from 589 students in 2018 to 531 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 38% to 17% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 16.3:1 today.

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