Roosevelt Elementary School

Roosevelt Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in NEW BRUNSWICK, New Jersey, one of the schools within New Brunswick School District. The school enrolls 597 students in grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 405 students per school, that is 47% larger than typical.

Within New Brunswick School District, which oversees 13 schools and 8,337 students, Roosevelt Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Roosevelt Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Beyond that, the school logs 5% Black. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Roosevelt Elementary School has 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.4:1, putting Roosevelt Elementary School tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Middlesex County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roosevelt Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 13.1%, the actual is 14.2%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Middlesex County put median household income runs about $111,549, 46% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Roosevelt Elementary School is one of 214 public schools in Middlesex County (combined enrollment of about 129,255 students).

Nearest neighbor: New Brunswick Adult High School, around 0.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 19.1%.

The school occupies a downtown site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School has shrank 23%, going from 772 students in 2018 to 597 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.7:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 in 2025.

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