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Enrollment
400
Elementary
DISTRICT 474 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PHILADELPHIA CITY SD·NCES 421899007477
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School
430 E Washington Ln, Philadelphia, PA 19144 · (215) 400-3640 · Philadelphia County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL400 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats 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 Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.6:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
397 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 75%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 32 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 37 | 9% |
| Grade 3 | 30 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 8% |
| Grade 5 | 32 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 60 | 15% |
| Grade 7 | 64 | 16% |
| Grade 8 | 78 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (32) is 59% smaller than its 8th grade class (78).
Student demographics
20%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 59% · 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
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
13.6%
PA avg 51.1% . +1.8pp since 2023
Math
4.9%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 14 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 5 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 13.6% | 4.9% |
| 2023-24 | 11.8% | 4.3% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
10.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
35.0%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-25.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 10% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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 Theodore Middle School
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School's state test result (10.1% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Theodore Middle School this school | 400 | 99.3% | 10.1% |
| Kelly John B School Philadelphia | 365 | 96.4% | 22.1% |
| Guidon S Bluford Elementary School Philadelphia | 476 | 99.4% | 9.1% |
| Rhoads James School Philadelphia | 421 | 97.4% | 13.3% |
| Samuel Pennypacker School Philadelphia | 328 | 99.1% | 14.4% |
| Blaine James G School Philadelphia | 332 | 97.3% | 6.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania 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 Theodore Middle School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Philadelphia County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 10.1% | #1,375 of 1,396 | #148 of 161 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 4.9% | #1,484 of 1,511 ▼ 8 | #177 of 193 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 13.6% | #1,448 of 1,511 ▲ 40 | #164 of 193 ▲ 17 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 400 | #885 of 1,638 | #108 of 194 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.7:1 | #16 of 1,528 | #6 of 189 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.3% | #1,188 of 1,531 | #140 of 189 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #363 of 1,600 | #88 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -20.8% | #265 of 1,045 | #88 of 135 |
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
400
-67 (-14%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
8.7:1
was 12.3:1
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 | 400 | 46.1 | 8.7:1 | 99% (397) |
| 2023-24 | 436 | 40.3 | 10.8:1 | 99% (433) |
| 2022-23 | 449 | 33.3 | 13.5:1 | 99% (446) |
| 2020-21 | 467 | 38 | 12.3:1 | 99% (464) |
| 2017-18 | 505 | 31.9 | 15.9:1 | 99% (501) |
| 2015-16 | 558 | 33 | 16.9:1 | 100% (558) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Theodore Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (505 to 400); teachers up 45% (31.9 to 46.1).
About Roosevelt Theodore Middle School
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School is a mid-sized elementary school in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, one of the schools in Philadelphia City SD. The school runs kindergarten through 8 and enrolls 400 students.
Philadelphia City SD enrolls 116,230 students, and its 220 schools include Roosevelt Theodore Middle School.
Roughly 89% of students at Roosevelt Theodore Middle School are Black. Smaller groups are 7% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 39% of Philadelphia County residents are Black. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 20%.
Teacher count: 46.1 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 8.7:1. The gap from the 13.1:1 average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 4.4 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 99%.
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School earns an F on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 1% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
In Pennsylvania, Roosevelt Theodore Middle School is one of the bottom 10% of schools on BeatsExpectations, with an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 10.1% compared with a predicted 35.0%.
Census data for Philadelphia County show median household income comes to about $61,953, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and roughly 17% of residents are in poverty. The county has 309 public schools and about 182,005 students.
Emlen Eleanor C School is about 0.4 miles from Roosevelt Theodore Middle School, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around Roosevelt Theodore Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. The school's 10.1% average proficiency ranks 6th among 7 nearby schools.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
A 14% decline took enrollment from 467 in 2020-21 to 400 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 12.3:1 in 2020-21 to 8.7:1 in 2024-25.
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Philadelphia County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,579,706
Census ACS
Median income
$61,953
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
309
182,005 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Philadelphia City SD
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- Northeast Community Propel AcademyElementary · 1,783 students
- Mayfair SchoolElementary · 1,763 students
- Washington George High SchoolHigh · 1,755 students
Other schools in Philadelphia
- Northeast High SchoolHigh · 3,463 students
- Philadelphia Performing Arts CSCombined · 2,572 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 2,472 students
- Central High SchoolHigh · 2,329 students
- MaST Community CS IICombined · 1,875 students
- First Philadelphia Preparatory CSCombined · 1,831 students
Nearby schools
- Emlen Eleanor C School0.4 mi · 301
- Mastery CS-Francis D. Pastorius Elementary0.7 mi · 647
- Parkway Northwest0.8 mi · 238
- Amy Nw0.8 mi · 150
- Day Anna B School0.8 mi · 314
- King Martin Luther High School0.9 mi · 527
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Theodore Middle SchoolHow large is Roosevelt Theodore Middle School?
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School enrolls approximately 400 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does Roosevelt Theodore Middle School serve?
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at Roosevelt Theodore Middle School?
Approximately 8.7:1 students per teacher at Roosevelt Theodore Middle School.
How diverse is Roosevelt Theodore Middle School?
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School reports a student body of 2% White, 7% Hispanic, 89% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Roosevelt Theodore Middle School in?
Roosevelt Theodore Middle School is part of Philadelphia City SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.