Roosevelt Elementary School

Roosevelt Elementary School is a mid-tier primary school in KEARNY, New Jersey, operated by Kearny. The school hosts 428 students in grades pre-K through 6.

Kearny comprises 7 schools with combined enrollment of 5,388 students; Roosevelt Elementary School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Roosevelt Elementary School records that 52% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 39% White, 4% multiracial, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 41% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. Around 50% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is below Hudson County's rate of about 68%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of +6.5 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hudson County) reports that median household earnings sit near $91,795, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Hudson County runs 130 public schools (combined enrollment of about 86,216 students), of which Roosevelt Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Schuyler Elementary School, around 0.5 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 39.6%.

Roosevelt Elementary School operates from a commuter-belt location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School has remained close to its prior level, going from 437 students in 2018 to 428 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 39% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 today.

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