Roosevelt Elementary School is a public elementary school serving 529 students in grades PK-6 in Mesa, Arizona, which is part of the Mesa Unified District. The school faces significant challenges, consistently performing below district and state averages on standardized tests, with only 21-29% of students proficient in English Language Arts and 22% proficient in Mathematics, compared to 38-46% proficiency at the district level.
Roosevelt Elementary has been ranked in the bottom 20% of Arizona elementary schools for several years, receiving 0-1 out of 5 stars from SchoolDigger. The school struggles to support the academic achievement of various student subgroups, with rankings for African American, Hispanic, White, multi-racial, special education, and low socioeconomic status students all in the bottom 30-40% of Arizona elementary schools. Additionally, the school has a very high percentage (70.7%) of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, indicating a high level of economic disadvantage among the student population.
Interestingly, the other elementary schools in the immediate vicinity of Roosevelt, such as Guerrero Elementary, Redbird Elementary, Adams Elementary, and Washington Elementary, also perform poorly compared to state and district averages, suggesting that the challenges facing Roosevelt Elementary may be systemic issues within the local community and school district. However, the nearby Arizona Language Schools, a public charter elementary school, ranks in the top 3% of Arizona elementary schools and significantly outperforms Roosevelt and the surrounding district schools on academic measures.
Students at Roosevelt Elementary School are 50% Hispanic, 15% White, 13% African American, 11% American Indian, 7% Two or more races, 2% Pacific Islander, 2% Asian.
Roosevelt Elementary School ranks in the bottom 6.0% of Arizona elementary schools.
In the 2023-24 school year, 506 students attended Roosevelt Elementary School.
Mesa Unified District