Enrollment
270
Elementary
DISTRICT 356 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·TACOMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530870001497
Roosevelt Elementary School
3550 E Roosevelt Ave, Tacoma, WA 98404 · (253) 571-4400 · Pierce County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of Washington public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- CThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Washington public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.2:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
76%
205 students
DISTRICT 57% · STATE 51%
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 | 34 | 13% |
| Kindergarten | 49 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 33 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 17% larger than its 5th grade class (42).
Student demographics
80%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 78% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
25.4%
WA avg 58.4% . +0.2pp since 2014
Math
22.2%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 25 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 22 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.4% | 22.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.7% | 24.6% |
| 2022-23 | 21.7% | 17.4% |
| 2021-22 | 34.6% | 17.3% |
| 2018-19 | 19.5% | 13.0% |
| 2017-18 | 24.2% | 13.4% |
| 2016-17 | 27.6% | 23.6% |
| 2015-16 | 26.5% | 18.2% |
| 2014-15 | 25.2% | 21.4% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
27.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
29.3%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 28% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 (27.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 270 | 75.9% | 27.6% |
| Silver Lake Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 382 | 74.6% | 28.9% |
| Christensen Elementary Tacoma | 346 | 74.3% | 32.8% |
| Twin Lakes Elementary School FEDERAL WAY | 371 | 72.5% | 47.1% |
| Federal Way Public School ECEAP Federal Way | 348 | 80.7% | N/A |
| Dower Elementary School Lakewood | 337 | 74.5% | 29.6% |
Matched among Washington 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 Washington | In Pierce County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #836 of 936 | #133 of 142 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 22.2% | #1,008 of 1,103 ▼ 39 | #136 of 142 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.4% | #1,013 of 1,102 ▼ 125 | #139 of 142 ▼ 17 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.2pp | #268 of 928 | #46 of 141 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #1,025 of 1,268 | #139 of 155 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.0:1 | #592 of 1,085 | #69 of 145 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 79.9% | #25 of 1,088 | #12 of 145 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 75.9% | #163 of 1,169 | #11 of 148 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.8% | #198 of 257 | #36 of 43 |
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
270
+6 (+2%) vs 2020
-37% since 1990-91, when it was 429
Student : Teacher
16.0:1
was 13.2:1
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 | 270 | 16.9 | 16.0:1 | 76% (205) |
| 2023-24 | 247 | 18.1 | 13.7:1 | 79% (194) |
| 2022-23 | 223 | 20.2 | 11.1:1 | 77% (172) |
| 2020-21 | 264 | 20 | 13.2:1 | 81% (213) |
| 2017-18 | 260 | 19 | 13.7:1 | 78% (202) |
| 2015-16 | 254 | 22 | 11.6:1 | 85% (217) |
| 2010-11 | 218 | 17 | 12.8:1 | 75% (164) |
| 2000-01 | 344 | 20 | 17.2:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 429 | 24 | 17.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students up 4% (260 to 270); teachers down 11% (19 to 16.9).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School is a small elementary school with an address in Tacoma, Washington. The school's 270 students are in pre-K through 5. Enrollment is 29% lower than the average for elementary schools in Washington, which is about 380.
Roosevelt Elementary School falls under Tacoma School District, which has 66 schools enrolling 28,900 students.
Roosevelt Elementary School has no majority group; Hispanic students are the largest, at 33%. The remaining students are 20% Black, 15% multiracial, 13% White, and 8% Pacific Islander. Among people living in Pierce County, the Hispanic share is about 13%. Pick two students at random and there is an 80% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal staffing data show 16.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at Roosevelt Elementary School and a ratio of 16.0:1. This ratio sits 1.3 below the 17.3:1 average for elementary schools in Washington. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility covers 76% of students. The rate at public schools in Pierce County averages 50%, lower than here.
Roosevelt Elementary School is graded D by allk12, scoring above 11% of Washington public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
The BeatsExpectations prediction for Roosevelt Elementary School is 29.3%, and its average proficiency rate on state tests is 27.6%.
Census estimates describe Pierce County this way: the median household income is $99,564, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Roosevelt Elementary School, Pierce County has 286 other public schools.
Nearest public school: Impact Public Schools, about 0.7 miles away. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: Roosevelt Elementary School ranks 7th of 8 nearby schools, at 27.6% versus a 31.8% average.
Locale: City: Mid-size. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The student count changed little between 2020-21 (264) and 2024-25 (270). The school's ratio rose from 13.2:1 to 16.0:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Pierce County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
930,319
Census ACS
Median income
$99,564
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
287
138,462 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Tacoma School District
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 687 students
- Tacoma School of the ArtsHigh · 658 students
Other schools in Tacoma
- Stadium High SchoolHigh · 1,700 students
- Lincoln High SchoolHigh · 1,556 students
- Mount Tahoma High SchoolHigh · 1,410 students
- Dr. Dolores Silas High SchoolHigh · 1,160 students
- Washington High SchoolHigh · 989 students
- Franklin Pierce High SchoolHigh · 977 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 70th largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt ElementaryGranger, WA · 580 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolVANCOUVER, WA · 543 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolYakima, WA · 455 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPort Angeles, WA · 420 students
- Roosevelt ElementarySpokane, WA · 402 students
Nearby schools
- Impact Public Schools0.7 mi · 232
- Blix Elementary School0.7 mi · 442
- Lister Elementary School0.9 mi · 376
- First Creek Middle School1.3 mi · 584
- Summit Public School: Olympus1.6 mi · 110
- Sheridan Elementary School1.7 mi · 525
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 270 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Roosevelt Elementary School serve?
Roosevelt Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Elementary School is approximately 16.0:1 (17 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Student demographics at Roosevelt Elementary School are roughly 13% White, 33% Hispanic, 20% Black, 7% Asian, 15% Two or more.
Who oversees Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School is overseen by Tacoma School District in Pierce County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.