Roosevelt High School

Roosevelt High School is one of the substantial high schools in SEATTLE, Washington, one of the schools within Seattle School District No. 1, with 1,542 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 169% larger than the state mean of about 573.

Within Seattle School District No. 1, which oversees 107 schools and 50,773 students, Roosevelt High School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Roosevelt High School shows that the largest single group is White, at 61% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 6% Black.

On the resource side, The school lists 69 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.6:1, putting Roosevelt High School higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 18% of students at Roosevelt High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is below King County's rate of about 38%.

With demographic context factored in, Roosevelt High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 68.0%; this one delivers 63.4%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for King County put the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across King County's 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), Roosevelt High School is one campus in the mix.

Green Lake Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt High School comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 74.4%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Roosevelt High School's enrollment has declined 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,867 (now 1,542). White enrollment moved from 69% to 61% across the same window.

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