Summary:
Roosevelt High School - 03 is a public high school located in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, serving grades 9-12 with a total enrollment of 1,713 students. It is part of the Sioux Falls School District 49-5, which is ranked 72 out of 126 districts in the state and has a 2-star rating from SchoolDigger.
Roosevelt High School - 03 consistently performs above the state average in Smarter Balanced Assessments for English Language Arts, Mathematics, and Science across all grade levels. In 2023-2024, 64.25% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in ELA, compared to the state average of 63.01%, and 37.5% were proficient or better in Mathematics, compared to the state average of 35.56%. The school also has strong performance among certain student subgroups, particularly male students and Hispanic students, ranking 26 out of 107 South Dakota high schools for male students and 6 out of 17 for Hispanic students. Additionally, Roosevelt High School - 03 has maintained a relatively high four-year graduation rate, ranging from 82.2% to 87.4% over the past three years, and a low dropout rate, ranging from 3.0% to 3.5%.
While Roosevelt High School - 03 performs comparably or better than the nearby Jefferson High School - 67 in most academic metrics, the nearby Tea Area High School - 03, which is in a different school district, outperforms Roosevelt High School - 03 in several areas, such as higher graduation rates (96.6% vs. 86.8%) and lower dropout rates (0.4% vs. 3.2%). This may be due to the relatively high percentage of students from low socioeconomic backgrounds at Roosevelt High School - 03, which ranges from 27.5% to 36.61% receiving free or reduced-price lunch over the past three years. However, the school has seen an increase in per-student spending, from $8,599 in 2019-2020 to $11,140 in 2022-2023, and a decrease in student-teacher ratio, from 18.8 in 2020-2021 to 15.5 in 2022-2023, which may have contributed to its overall academic performance and student outcomes.
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Detail:
Public 9-12
District:
Sioux Falls School District 49-5
SchoolDigger Rank:
61st of 141 South Dakota High Schools
Per Pupil Expenditures: $11,140
Feeder schools for Roosevelt High School - 03:
Student/teacher ratio: 15.5
Number of students: 1,713
Racial breakdown:
White:
66.4%
Hispanic:
11.7%
African American:
10.1%
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Two or more races:
6.5%
American Indian:
4.0%
Asian:
1.3%
Pacific Islander:
0.1%
Free/discounted lunch recipients: 27.5%
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