Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary operates as an average-sized K-5 school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, run under Wauwatosa School District. Current enrollment sits at 396 students spanning grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% bigger than the state mean of about 323.

Roosevelt Elementary is one of 17 schools operated by Wauwatosa School District, a district that teaches 6,704 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Roosevelt Elementary reports that White students make up the majority at 69%. The remainder is composed of 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Milwaukee County as a whole is about 51% White, so the school skews meaningfully more White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 26% of students at Roosevelt Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Milwaukee County runs at roughly 64%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Roosevelt Elementary is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 61.5%; this one delivers 77.6%, a residual of +16.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Milwaukee County indicate median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 13%. Roosevelt Elementary is one of 284 public schools in Milwaukee County (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students).

The closest other public school is Longfellow Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Roosevelt Elementary comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Roosevelt Elementary has stayed largely flat, going from 393 students in 2018 to 396 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 13.4:1 in 2025.

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