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What's the biggest difference between Roosevelt Elementary School and what you expected?
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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 368 · STATE 325
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COUNCIL BLUFFS COMM SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 190822000431
Roosevelt Elementary School
517 N 17th St, Council Bluffs, IA 51501 · (712) 328-6528 · Pottawattamie County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 8% of Iowa public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Iowa public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
45%
203 students
DISTRICT 42% · STATE 41%
Community
6
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 | 58 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 60 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 71 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 56 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 21% larger than its 5th grade class (56).
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 44% · STATE 48% · 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
ISASP 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
53.1%
IA avg 73.6% . +5.8pp since 2023
Math
67.0%
IA avg 70.9% . +8.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the ISASP, Iowa's statewide test, about 53 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 67 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Iowa schools, those numbers are about 74 and 71. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 8 points.
ISASP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 53.1% | 67.0% |
| 2023-24 | 47.3% | 58.7% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: ISASP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of IA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
54.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
69.6%
based on IA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 70% typical for Iowa schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 (54.4% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 455 | 44.6% | 54.4% |
| Franklin Elementary School Council Bluffs | 421 | 45.4% | 61.0% |
| Rue Elementary School Council Bluffs | 385 | 43.1% | 54.8% |
| Edison Elementary School Council Bluffs | 384 | 46.4% | 59.8% |
| Bloomer Elementary School Council Bluffs | 396 | 48.0% | 57.5% |
| Harding Elementary School Mason City | 387 | 45.2% | 66.8% |
Matched among Iowa 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 Iowa | In Pottawattamie County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.4% | #482 of 564 | #14 of 16 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 67.0% | #428 of 564 ▲ 48 | #14 of 16 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 53.1% | #494 of 564 ▲ 19 | #14 of 16 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #143 of 705 | #4 of 19 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.3:1 | #267 of 561 | #5 of 16 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 47.4% | #235 of 561 | #6 of 16 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 44.6% | #287 of 666 | #7 of 19 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.6% | #263 of 359 | #10 of 11 |
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
455
-2 (0%) vs 2020
-14% since 1990-91, when it was 532
Student : Teacher
13.3:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 455 | 34.1 | 13.3:1 | 45% (203) |
| 2023-24 | 451 | 33.1 | 13.6:1 | 58% (260) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 30 | 15.4:1 | 60% (278) |
| 2020-21 | 457 | 31 | 14.7:1 | 75% (342) |
| 2017-18 | 487 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 55% (266) |
| 2015-16 | 497 | 30 | 16.6:1 | 72% (358) |
| 2010-11 | 403 | 26 | 15.5:1 | 71% (285) |
| 2000-01 | 489 | 30 | 16.3:1 | 43% (209) |
| 1990-91 | 532 | 22 | 24.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 7% (487 to 455); teachers up 10% (31 to 34.1).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School runs as a medium-sized elementary school in Council Bluffs, Iowa. The school serves 455 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. Enrollment is 40% higher than the average for elementary schools in Iowa, which is about 325.
The district, Council Bluffs Comm School District, has 8,299 students enrolled across 15 schools.
Roosevelt Elementary School's enrollment is 70% White. The next largest groups are 18% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, and 5% Black. In Pottawattamie County overall, about 88% of residents are White. Roosevelt Elementary School has a diversity index of 47%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Federal data list 34.1 full-time-equivalent teachers at Roosevelt Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 13.3:1. Across elementary schools in Iowa, the average ratio is about 13.7:1. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 45%.
Roosevelt Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 8% of Iowa public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Roosevelt Elementary School falls short of its prediction by 15.2 points. The model expects 69.6% for a school with its free or reduced-price lunch share in Iowa; the school's rate is 54.4%.
Pottawattamie County has these Census figures: median household income is about $73,602, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 24%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Roosevelt Elementary School is among the 35 public schools in Pottawattamie County.
The closest other public school is Woodrow Wilson Middle School, about 0.3 miles away. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 8 nearby schools with scores, Roosevelt Elementary School ranks 7th on average proficiency.
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.
Enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School was 457 in 2020-21 and 455 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.3:1.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
Pottawattamie County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
93,424
Census ACS
Median income
$73,602
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
24%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
35
15,270 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Council Bluffs Comm School District
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
- College View ElementaryElementary · 488 students
- Longfellow Elementary SchoolElementary · 431 students
Other schools in Council Bluffs
- Abraham Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,333 students
- Thomas Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 1,146 students
- Lewis Central Senior High SchoolHigh · 1,020 students
- Gerald W Kirn Middle SchoolMiddle · 913 students
- Titan Hill Intermediate SchoolElementary · 901 students
- Woodrow Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 855 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 33rd largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolMason City, IA · 348 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 785 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolAllentown, PA · 631 students
- ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY SCHOOLTAMPA, FL · 614 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolRAHWAY, NJ · 608 students
Nearby schools
- Woodrow Wilson Middle School0.3 mi · 855
- Anne E. Nelson Early Learning Center0.6 mi · 119
- Edison Elementary School0.7 mi · 384
- Thomas Jefferson High School0.8 mi · 1,146
- Bloomer Elementary School0.9 mi · 396
- Franklin Elementary School1.4 mi · 421
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 455 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 13.3:1 students per teacher at Roosevelt Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roosevelt Elementary School?
At Roosevelt Elementary School, the student body is approximately 70% White, 18% Hispanic, 5% Black, 1% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School public or private?
Roosevelt Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Council Bluffs Comm School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.