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Roosevelt Elementary
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 46 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 57 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Roosevelt Elementary
Roosevelt Elementary is a sizable K-5 school in Plover, Wisconsin, part of Stevens Point Area Public School District. The school works with 522 students in grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Roosevelt Elementary sits 62% larger than that benchmark.
Roosevelt Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Stevens Point Area Public School District, a district that serves 6,885 students overall.
Demographically, Roosevelt Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 75% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Hispanic, 7% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 90%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.3:1. The state averages about 14.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Portage County (around 35%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Roosevelt Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.9%, the actual is 53.8%, a residual of +3.0 points.
Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Portage County) records that the typical household earns roughly $76,070 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Roosevelt Elementary is one of 31 public schools in Portage County (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students).
The closest other public school is Plover-Whiting Elementary, roughly 1.2 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.8%.
The school occupies a small-town site.
Looking at the recent track record. Roosevelt Elementary's enrollment has expanded 14% since 2018, when it stood at 457 (now 522).
On allk12, the feed for Roosevelt Elementary typically covers enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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