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Which teacher or staff member at Roosevelt Elementary School deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
455
Elementary
DISTRICT 451 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YAKIMA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 531011001704
Roosevelt Elementary School
120 N 16th Ave, Yakima, WA 98902 · (509) 573-1700 · Yakima County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 32% 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.
- 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.
- 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
15.6:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 22.8:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
411 students
DISTRICT 86% · STATE 51%
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 | 68 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 72 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 73 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 80 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 76 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
39%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 30% · 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
28.0%
WA avg 58.4% . -2.2pp since 2014
Math
27.6%
WA avg 51.2% . +0.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 28 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2014, while math scores have held steady.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 28.0% | 27.6% |
| 2023-24 | 24.8% | 23.9% |
| 2022-23 | 30.7% | 26.1% |
| 2021-22 | 32.9% | 26.8% |
| 2018-19 | 61.0% | 49.6% |
| 2017-18 | 52.7% | 45.7% |
| 2016-17 | 36.1% | 41.7% |
| 2015-16 | 33.9% | 34.7% |
| 2014-15 | 30.2% | 27.5% |
% 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
28.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.6%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 20% 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 (28.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Roosevelt Elementary School this school | 455 | 90.3% | 28.7% |
| Lewis And Clark Elementary Sch WENATCHEE | 424 | 85.1% | N/A |
| Union Gap School Union Gap | 558 | 88.5% | 44.8% |
| Robertson Elementary Yakima | 473 | 82.5% | 32.4% |
| Mcclure Elementary School Yakima | 559 | 83.7% | 25.9% |
| Ridgeview Elementary Yakima | 533 | 87.2% | 29.4% |
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 Yakima County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 28.7% | #815 of 936 | #24 of 43 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 27.6% | #920 of 1,103 ▲ 54 | #28 of 45 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 28.0% | #973 of 1,102 ▲ 47 | #26 of 45 ▲ 7 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -2.0pp | #281 of 928 | #14 of 44 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #431 of 1,268 | #25 of 52 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #500 of 1,085 | #19 of 51 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.2% | #935 of 1,088 | #24 of 51 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #27 of 1,169 | #14 of 51 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.2% | #495 of 778 | #24 of 40 |
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
455
-13 (-3%) vs 2020
+70% since 1990-91, when it was 268
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 18.7:1
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 | 455 | 29.1 | 15.6:1 | 90% (411) |
| 2023-24 | 473 | 34.7 | 13.6:1 | 93% (439) |
| 2022-23 | 478 | 29.6 | 16.1:1 | 88% (423) |
| 2020-21 | 468 | 25 | 18.7:1 | 78% (366) |
| 2017-18 | 524 | 29.2 | 18.0:1 | 79% (413) |
| 2015-16 | 550 | 29 | 19.0:1 | 88% (482) |
| 2010-11 | 525 | 26 | 20.2:1 | 74% (391) |
| 2000-01 | 490 | 29 | 16.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 268 | 13 | 20.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Roosevelt Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 13% (524 to 455); teachers unchanged (29.2 to 29.1).
About Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school with a street address in Yakima, Washington. Enrollment totals 455 students across kindergarten through 5.
Roosevelt Elementary School is one of the 27 schools that make up Yakima School District (15,488 students in total).
The student body at Roosevelt Elementary School is 76% Hispanic. Other reported shares: 19% White and 4% multiracial. Yakima County's residents are about 52% Hispanic, 23 points below the school's share. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 39, compared with 70 nationally.
Its ratio of 15.6:1 is based on 29.1 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Washington is 17.3:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. In all, 90% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 77% for public schools in Yakima County.
Among Washington public elementary schools, Roosevelt Elementary School outscored 32%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at Roosevelt Elementary School are 9.1 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (28.7% actual, 19.6% predicted).
In the wider Yakima County area, the median household earns about $70,656 a year, about 19% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 12%. Roosevelt Elementary School shares Yakima County with 118 other public schools.
Roosevelt Elementary School is about 0.4 miles from Franklin Middle School, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. On proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary School is ahead of the 28.2% nearby average, ranking 4th of 6.
Federal data place Roosevelt Elementary School in the City: Small locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Roosevelt Elementary School had a net loss of 13 students, or 3%. Its ratio of students to teachers was 18.7:1 in 2020-21, and 15.6:1 in 2024-25.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about open houses, carpools, and field trips at Roosevelt Elementary School. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Yakima County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
257,152
Census ACS
Median income
$70,656
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
19%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
119
52,145 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Yakima School District
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
- Wilson Middle SchoolMiddle · 840 students
- Lewis & Clark Middle SchoolMiddle · 815 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 748 students
Other schools in Yakima
- Davis High SchoolHigh · 2,359 students
- Eisenhower High SchoolHigh · 2,258 students
- West Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,494 students
- West Valley Mid-Level CampusMiddle · 1,167 students
- East Valley High SchoolHigh · 1,064 students
- Franklin Middle SchoolMiddle · 848 students
Other Roosevelt Elementary schools
91 other US public schools in 22 states are named Roosevelt Elementary. Roosevelt Elementary School is the 33rd largest of the 92.
- Roosevelt ElementaryGranger, WA · 580 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolVANCOUVER, WA · 543 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolPort Angeles, WA · 420 students
- Roosevelt ElementarySpokane, WA · 402 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolBellingham, WA · 348 students
Nearby schools
- Franklin Middle School0.4 mi · 848
- Mckinley Elementary School0.6 mi · 403
- Juvenile Detention Center0.6 mi · 23
- Ridgeview Group Home0.7 mi · 3
- Davis High School0.8 mi · 2,359
- Robertson Elementary0.8 mi · 473
Frequently asked questions
About Roosevelt Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary School?
Roosevelt Elementary School enrolls approximately 455 students in grades KG-05.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Roosevelt Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Roosevelt Elementary School is approximately 15.6:1 (29 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at Roosevelt Elementary School?
At Roosevelt Elementary School, the student body is approximately 19% White, 76% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Roosevelt Elementary School public or private?
Roosevelt Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Yakima School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.