Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary is an elementary campus of tight-knit scale in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, overseen by Oshkosh Area School District, works with 235 students in grades K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Roosevelt Elementary sits 27% smaller than that benchmark.

Across the 21 schools in Oshkosh Area School District (9,582 students total), Roosevelt Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Roosevelt Elementary logs that 54% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 12% multiracial, 12% Asian, 11% Hispanic, 11% Black. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 87%.

On the income-and-resources front, Roosevelt Elementary lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Winnebago County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Roosevelt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 39.3%, the actual is 38.0%, a residual of -1.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, Winnebago County reports that median household income runs about $74,925, roughly 31% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Roosevelt Elementary is one of 56 public schools in Winnebago County (combined enrollment of about 22,271 students).

Nearest neighbor: West High, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Roosevelt Elementary. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 51.6%.

Roosevelt Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count changed only slightly: 232 students in 2018 compared to 235 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 66% to 54%.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.