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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Roosevelt Middle School this year?
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Enrollment
457
Middle
DISTRICT 498 · STATE 578
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST ORANGE PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 341761002476
Roosevelt Middle School
36 GILBERT PL, W ORANGE, NJ 07052 · (973) 669-5373 · Essex County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL457 STUDENTS
B+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 65% of New Jersey public middle schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
56 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.2:1 · STATE 10.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
200 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 41%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 7 | 238 | 52% |
| Grade 8 | 219 | 48% |
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · 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 Middle School→West Orange High School
Based on grade levels within West Orange Public Schools. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
70.5%
NJ avg 53.1% . +10.9pp since 2023
Math
43.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . +8.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 70.5% | 43.8% |
| 2023-24 | 59.6% | 34.9% |
% 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
46.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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 Middle School
Roosevelt Middle School's state test result (46.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Middle School this school | 457 | 43.8% | 46.2% |
| Edison Middle School W ORANGE | 477 | 42.6% | 55.3% |
| Liberty Middle School WEST ORANGE | 559 | 46.2% | 44.5% |
| Thomas E. Bowe Middle School Glassboro | 412 | 45.6% | 28.4% |
| Benjamin Franklin Middle School TEANECK | 463 | 52.3% | 40.0% |
| Kawameeh Middle School UNION | 729 | 43.2% | 43.3% |
Matched among New Jersey middle 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 Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.2% | #207 of 433 | #16 of 27 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #209 of 437 ▲ 42 | #17 of 28 ▲ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 70.5% | #139 of 437 ▲ 66 | #14 of 28 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 457 | #284 of 445 | #20 of 29 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.2:1 | #20 of 417 | #3 of 28 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #44 of 419 | #3 of 28 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.8% | #169 of 436 | #9 of 27 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.6% | #98 of 282 | #8 of 16 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
457
-19 (-4%) vs 2020
-20% since 1990-91, when it was 569
Student : Teacher
8.2:1
was 8.8:1
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 | 457 | 55.7 | 8.2:1 | 44% (200) |
| 2023-24 | 430 | 58.7 | 7.3:1 | 42% (179) |
| 2022-23 | 499 | 54.9 | 9.1:1 | 44% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 476 | 54 | 8.8:1 | 43% (207) |
| 2017-18 | 535 | 56.5 | 9.5:1 | 42% (225) |
| 2015-16 | 535 | 56 | 9.6:1 | 42% (223) |
| 2010-11 | 452 | 38 | 11.9:1 | 38% (174) |
| 2000-01 | 726 | 45 | 16.1:1 | 16% (117) |
| 1990-91 | 569 | 42 | 13.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 15% (535 to 457); teachers down 1% (56.5 to 55.7).
About Roosevelt Middle School
Roosevelt Middle School sits in W ORANGE, New Jersey, and is classified as a middle-grades school. It had 457 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 7 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in New Jersey enroll about 578 students on average.
West Orange Public Schools has a total of 13 schools and 6,616 students, Roosevelt Middle School among them.
Hispanic students make up 38% of enrollment at Roosevelt Middle School, the largest share of any group. Beyond that, enrollment is 35% Black, 18% White, and 6% multiracial. In Essex County overall, about 25% of residents are Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 70, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 8.2:1 is based on 55.7 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in New Jersey average 10.9:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 44%. For comparison, public schools in Essex County average 54%.
On the allk12 Grade, Roosevelt Middle School lands at B+, ahead of 65% of New Jersey public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Roosevelt Middle School is +4.0 points: 46.2% actual, 42.2% predicted.
The school is in Essex County, where the median household earns about $80,789 a year, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 11% of residents are in poverty. Across Essex County, 249 public schools serve about 145,473 students.
The closest school to Roosevelt Middle School is Hazel Avenue Elementary School, located about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. In a group of 9 nearby schools with scores, Roosevelt Middle School ranks 4th on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Large, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment was 457 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 476.
This page is set up for the Roosevelt Middle School community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Essex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
863,002
Census ACS
Median income
$80,789
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
249
145,473 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Orange Public Schools
- West Orange High SchoolHigh · 2,106 students
- Liberty Middle SchoolMiddle · 559 students
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
Other schools in W ORANGE
- Gregory Elementary SchoolElementary · 484 students
- Edison Middle SchoolMiddle · 477 students
- Kelly Elementary SchoolElementary · 451 students
- Redwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 446 students
- St. Cloud Elementary SchoolElementary · 436 students
- Washington Elementary SchoolElementary · 414 students
Other Roosevelt Middle schools
16 other US public schools in 15 states are named Roosevelt Middle. Roosevelt Middle School is the 12th largest of the 17.
- Roosevelt MiddleBLAINE, MN · 1,087 students
- Roosevelt MiddleOceanside, CA · 866 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolOklahoma City, OK · 858 students
- ROOSEVELT MIDDLE SCHOOLWEST PALM BEACH, FL · 793 students
- Roosevelt Middle SchoolNew Bedford, MA · 759 students
Nearby schools
- Hazel Avenue Elementary School0.4 mi · 334
- Gregory Elementary School0.4 mi · 484
- Forest Street Community Elementary School0.5 mi · 384
- Orange High School1.0 mi · 1,368
- Orange Preparatory Academy School of Inquiry and Innovation1.0 mi · 397
- Lincoln Avenue Elementary School1.1 mi · 728
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Middle SchoolHow large is Roosevelt Middle School?
Roosevelt Middle School enrolls approximately 457 students in grades 07-08.
Is Roosevelt Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Roosevelt Middle School is a middle school covering grades 07-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Middle School is approximately 8.2:1 (56 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roosevelt Middle School?
At Roosevelt Middle School, the student body is approximately 18% White, 38% Hispanic, 35% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Roosevelt Middle School in?
Roosevelt Middle School is part of West Orange Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.