Enrollment
334
Elementary
DISTRICT 303 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·RIDGEFIELD PARK PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341380000760
Roosevelt Elementary School
508 TEANECK ROAD, RIDGEFIELD PARK, NJ 07660 · (201) 440-0808 · Bergen County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL334 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 62% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.8:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
49%
163 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 41%
Community
0
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 | 22 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 42 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 36 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 45 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 56 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (42) is 25% smaller than its 6th grade class (56).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 51% · STATE 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Roosevelt Elementary School→Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School
Based on grade levels within Ridgefield Park Public School District. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
61.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +0.2pp since 2023
Math
39.9%
NJ avg 41.6% . -0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 61.5% | 39.9% |
| 2023-24 | 61.3% | 40.0% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. 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
46.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
39.5%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+7.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 39% typical for New Jersey 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 New Jersey'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 Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School's state test result (46.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 334 | 48.8% | 46.9% |
| Lincoln Elementary School RIDGEFIELD PARK | 346 | 54.3% | 49.1% |
| Robert Gordon Elementary School ROSELLE PARK | 325 | 49.5% | 33.0% |
| Canfield Avenue School MINE HILL | 382 | 43.2% | 46.8% |
| School #5 CLIFTON | 398 | 53.5% | 32.9% |
| Sara M. Gilmore Academy Union City | 400 | 54.8% | 78.8% |
Matched among New Jersey 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 New Jersey | In Bergen County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.9% | #600 of 1,290 | #114 of 137 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.9% | #798 of 1,319 ▼ 53 | #137 of 149 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 61.5% | #450 of 1,319 ▼ 24 | #108 of 149 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 334 | #966 of 1,562 | #90 of 173 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.8:1 | #294 of 1,390 | #27 of 151 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 54.2% | #688 of 1,392 | #94 of 151 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.8% | #605 of 1,481 | #40 of 154 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.0% | #379 of 545 | #42 of 64 |
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
334
-5 (-1%) vs 2020
-1% since 1990-91, when it was 336
Student : Teacher
9.8:1
was 11.7:1
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 | 334 | 34 | 9.8:1 | 49% (163) |
| 2023-24 | 338 | 35 | 9.7:1 | 41% (140) |
| 2022-23 | 333 | 32 | 10.4:1 | 35% (115) |
| 2020-21 | 339 | 29 | 11.7:1 | 35% (119) |
| 2017-18 | 318 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 37% (119) |
| 2015-16 | 357 | 25 | 14.3:1 | 39% (138) |
| 2010-11 | 409 | 22 | 18.6:1 | 31% (126) |
| 2000-01 | 337 | 25 | 13.5:1 | 23% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 336 | 19 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 5% (318 to 334); teachers up 55% (22 to 34).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Students in RIDGEFIELD PARK, New Jersey, attend Roosevelt Elementary School, a small elementary school. Classes run from pre-K through 6, and the school has 334 students.
Ridgefield Park Public School District oversees Roosevelt Elementary School and 3 other schools, with 2,067 students in total.
At Roosevelt Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 64% of the student body. The remaining shares are 19% White, 9% Asian, 4% multiracial, and 4% Black. Bergen County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. Roosevelt Elementary School's diversity index is 54%, against a US figure of 70%.
Dividing enrollment by its 34 full-time-equivalent teachers gives a ratio of about 9.8:1. That is lower than the 11.4:1 average for elementary schools in New Jersey. Eligible students account for 49% of enrollment in the free or reduced-price lunch program. It compares with 28% for public schools in Bergen County.
The allk12 Grade for Roosevelt Elementary School is B. Compared with New Jersey public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 62% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
A school with Roosevelt Elementary School's lunch-eligibility share in New Jersey is predicted to score 39.5%. Roosevelt Elementary School scores 46.9%, 7.4 points above that line.
According to the American Community Survey, in Bergen County, the median household income is $124,884, roughly 53% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. There are 291 public schools in Bergen County, enrolling about 133,883 students in all.
Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School is the public school closest to Roosevelt Elementary School, about 0.3 miles away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 44.6% on proficiency, and Roosevelt Elementary School is above that at 46.9%.
Locale: Suburb: Large. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Compared with 2020-21, when it had 339 students, enrollment in 2024-25 was about the same at 334. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 11.7:1 to 9.8:1.
Parents and students can post about sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater at Roosevelt Elementary School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Bergen County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
962,316
Census ACS
Median income
$124,884
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
291
133,883 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Ridgefield Park Public School District
- Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 228 students
Other schools in RIDGEFIELD PARK
- Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- Lincoln Elementary SchoolElementary · 346 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolElementary · 228 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 60th largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolRAHWAY, NJ · 608 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolNEW BRUNSWICK, NJ · 597 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolHAWTHORNE, NJ · 521 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolSOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ · 472 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolKEARNY, NJ · 428 students
Nearby schools
- Ridgefield Park Jr Sr High School0.3 mi · 1,159
- Lincoln Elementary School0.5 mi · 346
- E. Roy Bixby0.7 mi · 314
- Bogota Middle School1.0 mi · 166
- Grant Elementary School1.0 mi · 228
- Bogota Jr./Sr. High School1.1 mi · 475
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolHow large is Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 334 students in grades PK-06.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-06.
How many teachers does Roosevelt Elementary School have?
Roosevelt Elementary School employs 34 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.8:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roosevelt Elementary School?
At Roosevelt Elementary School, the student body is approximately 19% White, 64% Hispanic, 4% Black, 9% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School public or private?
Roosevelt Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Ridgefield Park Public School District.
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