Roosevelt High School

Roosevelt High School is a 9-12 campus of high-enrollment scale in Portland, Oregon, overseen by Portland SD 1J, enrolling 1,450 students in grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 130% bigger than the state mean of about 630.

Roosevelt High School is one of 86 schools operated by Portland SD 1J, a district that caters to 41,894 students overall.

Demographically, Roosevelt High School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic at 37%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 33% White, 13% Black, 10% multiracial. By comparison, Multnomah County as a whole is about 14% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 90 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 19.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 42% of students at Roosevelt High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Multnomah County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), On a poverty-adjusted basis, Roosevelt High School sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.3%; actual is 20.5%, a gap of -25.8 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Multnomah County shows the typical household earns roughly $88,766 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Roosevelt High School is one of 169 public schools in Multnomah County (combined enrollment of about 81,096 students).

George Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Roosevelt High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 32.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt High School has climbed 69%, going from 857 students in 2018 to 1,450 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 18% to 13% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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