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Enrollment
600
Elementary
DISTRICT 430 · STATE 366
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·NORMAN·NCES 402172001127
Roosevelt Elementary School
4250 West Tecumseh Road, Norman, OK 73072 · (405) 447-6581 · Cleveland County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL600 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 78% of Oklahoma public elementary schools
- ATest 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 Oklahoma public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
144 students
DISTRICT 56% · STATE 68%
Community
1
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 | 68 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 76 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 82 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 100 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 86 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 98 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (76) is 22% smaller than its 5th grade class (98).
Student demographics
62%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 73% · 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
OSTP / CCRA 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
46.6%
OK avg 30.6%
Math
53.4%
OK avg 32.6%
What this means: On the OSTP / CCRA, Oklahoma's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 53 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oklahoma schools, those numbers are about 31 and 33.
Source: OSTP / CCRA. 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
50.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.4%
based on OK schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.4pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 51% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 47% typical for Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma'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 (50.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 600 | 24.0% | 50.8% |
| Rose Union Elementary School Edmond | 575 | 20.7% | 43.0% |
| Bixby North Elementary School Bixby | 644 | 22.2% | 65.5% |
| Westwood Elementary School Stillwater | 626 | 31.9% | 65.1% |
| Pamela Hodson Elementary School Owasso | 563 | 31.1% | 63.4% |
| South Lake Elementary School Oklahoma City | 666 | 15.0% | 62.4% |
Matched among Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma | In Cleveland County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 50.8% | #50 of 555 | #8 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.4% | #70 of 651 | #11 of 43 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 46.6% | #53 of 523 | #10 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 600 | #90 of 941 | #6 of 50 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #286 of 708 | #29 of 50 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.9% | #427 of 708 | #40 of 50 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.0% | #861 of 876 | #48 of 50 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.1% | #457 of 548 | #34 of 39 |
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
600
+68 (+13%) vs 2020
+107% since 2000-01, when it was 290
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 13.3:1
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 | 600 | 39 | 15.4:1 | 24% (144) |
| 2023-24 | 615 | 39.2 | 15.7:1 | 25% (152) |
| 2022-23 | 666 | 40.3 | 16.5:1 | 19% (126) |
| 2020-21 | 532 | 40 | 13.3:1 | 20% (108) |
| 2017-18 | 632 | 38.7 | 16.4:1 | 19% (120) |
| 2015-16 | 637 | 38 | 16.8:1 | 18% (115) |
| 2010-11 | 685 | 39 | 17.6:1 | 16% (111) |
| 2000-01 | 290 | 20 | 14.5:1 | 12% (36) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 5% (632 to 600); teachers up 1% (38.7 to 39).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School is a large elementary school in Norman, Oklahoma, one of the schools in NORMAN. It serves 600 students in pre-K through 5. The average among elementary schools in Oklahoma is roughly 366 students; this school is 64% larger than that.
The district, NORMAN, operates 25 schools serving 16,048 students.
At Roosevelt Elementary School, White students make up 58% of the student body. The school is also 16% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 9% Asian, and 4% Native American. That is lower than the 70% White share among all Cleveland County residents. Roosevelt Elementary School's diversity index is 62%, against a US figure of 70%.
Roosevelt Elementary School employs 39 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 15.4:1. That matches the 15.6:1 average for elementary schools in Oklahoma fairly closely. Roosevelt Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch eligibility rate is 24%. That rate is below the 52% average among public schools in Cleveland County.
Measured against Oklahoma public elementary schools, Roosevelt Elementary School receives an A-. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Roosevelt Elementary School posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 50.8%, compared with a predicted 47.4%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Oklahoma schools on BeatsExpectations.
Within Cleveland County, the median household income is $77,068, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 36% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. In all, Cleveland County has 72 public schools and roughly 45,218 students.
The nearest public school is Truman Elementary School, at about 2.3 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On state test proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary School ranks 2nd in a group of 5 nearby schools.
The NCES locale for Roosevelt Elementary School is Suburb: Mid-size, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The school enrolled 600 students in 2024-25, 68 more than the 532 it had in 2020-21. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 13.3:1; by 2024-25 it was 15.4:1.
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Cleveland County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
300,047
Census ACS
Median income
$77,068
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
72
45,218 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in NORMAN
- Norman North High SchoolHigh · 2,400 students
- Norman High SchoolHigh · 2,100 students
- Whittier Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Dimensions AcademyElementary · 738 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Alcott Middle SchoolMiddle · 708 students
Other schools in Norman
- Norman North High SchoolHigh · 2,400 students
- Norman High SchoolHigh · 2,100 students
- Whittier Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,108 students
- Dimensions AcademyElementary · 738 students
- Irving Middle SchoolMiddle · 727 students
- Alcott Middle SchoolMiddle · 708 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 6th largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPryor, OK · 517 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPonca City, OK · 252 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolMiami, OK · 207 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryLong Beach, CA · 785 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolAllentown, PA · 631 students
Nearby schools
- Truman Elementary School2.3 mi · 303
- Truman Primary School2.3 mi · 353
- Cleveland Elementary School3.2 mi · 514
- Oakridge Elementary School3.2 mi · 576
- Norman North High School3.4 mi · 2,400
- Adams Elementary School3.5 mi · 506
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 600 students in grades PK-05.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Roosevelt Elementary School have?
Roosevelt Elementary School employs 39 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Student demographics at Roosevelt Elementary School are roughly 58% White, 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, 9% Asian, 16% Two or more.
What district is Roosevelt Elementary School in?
Roosevelt Elementary School is part of NORMAN.
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