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Roosevelt Junior High School

Public Grades 7-8
851st
SchoolDigger Rank ?
of 1,126 Illinois Middle Schools
Better than 24% of Illinois middle schools
Summary

Roosevelt Junior High School serves 130 students in grades 7–8 in Dolton, Illinois. Its latest results show a clear contrast across subjects, with English Language Arts (ELA) near the state level but mathematics far behind. Mathematics is the school’s most pressing academic concern: 10% of students were proficient, compared with 40% statewide.

ELA is Roosevelt’s strongest result, especially in seventh grade. All-grades ELA proficiency was 53%, about 20 percentage points above Dolton School District 148 and 4 points below the state. Seventh-grade ELA proficiency was 51%, higher than the 42% at nearby McKinley Junior High School, the strongest nearby result in that grade. Mathematics was also below the district’s 14% and just above the 8% at Washington Junior High; the nearby Lincoln Junior High School math result was not available. Eighth-grade science was 28%: higher than the district’s 19%, but below the state’s 52% and close to the nearby-school average of 29%.

ELA improved from 30% in 2024–2025 to 53% in 2025–2026, while math declined from 13% to 10%. Chronic absenteeism also improved, falling from 44% in 2021–2022 to 29% in 2025–2026, though the latest rate remained 5 points above the state. SchoolDigger ranked Roosevelt at the 24th percentile with 1 star in 2025–2026, second-highest among nine nearby schools with rankings. Its student-teacher ratio was 13.9:1, below the nearby average of 16.8:1; the school reported Community Eligibility for 2024–2025, meaning all students receive free meals. SchoolDigger’s ranking for African American Students was at the 41st percentile in 2025–2026, above the school’s overall 24th percentile; its Special Education Students ranking fell from the 41st percentile in 2021–2022 to the 6th percentile in 2024–2025.

130
Students ?
13.9
Student/teacher ratio ?
$24,010
Per pupil spending ?
Community Eligibility
All students receive free meals (2024-25) ?
100%
Measles protection (all grades) (2025-26)
 111 W 146th St
       Dolton, IL  60419-1453

(708) 201-2071

District: Dolton School District 148


Students who attend Roosevelt Junior High School usually attend:

High:    Thornton Township High School

Feeder schools for Roosevelt Junior High School:

Elementary:    Park Elementary School
    Roosevelt Elementary School
Racial breakdown:

African American:
92.3%
Hispanic:
5.4%
White:
1.5%
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At a glance
▬ Ranking trend: Holding steady — 23rd percentile in 2015 → 24th in 2026
Worth a look
!Test scores below the Illinois average (30% vs 49% meeting standards)
!In the lower quartile statewide (24th percentile)
!Mathematics scores 30 pts below the Illinois average
Students meeting standards (2025-2026) ?
This school30%
District avg22%
Illinois avg49%
851st of 1,126
Illinois public middle schools ?
Bottom 24%▲ up 6 pts since 2016
From bottom 18% (2016) to bottom 24% (2026)
See the entire ranking list of Illinois Middle Schools →
★★★★★
SchoolDigger rating ?
1st of 3Middle Schools in the Dolton School District 148
712th of 738Dolton School District 148 among Illinois districts
Statewide rank percentile over time (100 = the top-ranked school in the state; click a legend item to add a student group)
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All Students

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202624.5851 of 112624.4%★☆☆☆☆
202518.91142 of 136816.5%★☆☆☆☆
202430.0905 of 136333.6%★★☆☆☆
202322.71056 of 136722.8%★☆☆☆☆
202226.5968 of 136929.3%★☆☆☆☆
201911.71276 of 13565.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201818.11086 of 129316.0%★☆☆☆☆
201718.31085 of 129316.1%★☆☆☆☆
201622.11058 of 129418.2%★☆☆☆☆
201523.81009 of 130222.5%★☆☆☆☆
201425.71033 of 132221.9%★☆☆☆☆
201339.1884 of 136735.3%★★☆☆☆
201227.31084 of 136520.6%★☆☆☆☆
201144.7846 of 134437.1%★★☆☆☆
201040.4919 of 132730.7%★★☆☆☆
200935.2963 of 131826.9%★☆☆☆☆
200855.1697 of 129346.1%★★☆☆☆
200731.1981 of 128723.8%★☆☆☆☆
200627.1997 of 127221.6%★☆☆☆☆
200535.2851 of 120929.6%★☆☆☆☆
200424.2933 of 120422.5%★☆☆☆☆
200332.9847 of 118528.5%★☆☆☆☆

African American

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202640.9132 of 22441.1%★★☆☆☆
202544.3286 of 57450.2%★★★☆☆
202455.9180 of 54867.2%★★★☆☆
202350.1223 of 56960.8%★★★☆☆
202256.3169 of 57370.5%★★★★☆
201927.8455 of 56519.5%★☆☆☆☆
201845.4231 of 51154.8%★★★☆☆

Disabled

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202523.8593 of 69414.6%★☆☆☆☆

Female

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202524.4958 of 124823.2%★☆☆☆☆
202437.1745 of 125140.4%★★☆☆☆
202324.8950 of 127525.5%★☆☆☆☆
202223.4990 of 128623.0%★☆☆☆☆
201915.01136 of 127611.0%★☆☆☆☆
201819.21015 of 122617.2%★☆☆☆☆

Low Socio Economic Status

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202633.6543 of 78831.1%★★☆☆☆
202529.0913 of 122925.7%★☆☆☆☆
202443.3640 of 121947.5%★★☆☆☆
202335.0805 of 123434.8%★★☆☆☆
202240.2673 of 122144.9%★★☆☆☆
201915.71137 of 12176.6%☆☆☆☆☆
201827.6887 of 116123.6%★☆☆☆☆

Male

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202618.7685 of 82917.4%★☆☆☆☆
202514.81145 of 12719.9%☆☆☆☆☆
202422.4973 of 126423.0%★☆☆☆☆
202322.11023 of 129220.8%★☆☆☆☆
202231.8832 of 128635.3%★★☆☆☆
201911.71233 of 12964.9%☆☆☆☆☆
201818.51040 of 122315.0%★☆☆☆☆

Special Education

YearAvg scoreStatewide rankIllinois percentileRating
202516.1762 of 8126.2%☆☆☆☆☆
202235.7462 of 78140.8%★★☆☆☆
201924.6756 of 7924.5%☆☆☆☆☆
How student groups rank statewide ? (each group's percentile vs the same group at other schools — higher is better; the +/- beside each compares the group with this school's overall percentile)
African American (2026)41st percentile+17 vs school
Low Socio Economic Status (2026)31st percentile+7 vs school
Female (2025)23rd percentile+7 vs school
Male (2026)17th percentile-7 vs school
Disabled (2025)15th percentile~ school
Special Education (2025)6th percentile-10 vs school
By subject vs Illinois (2025-2026) ?
English Language Arts53%-4 vs state
Science28%-24 vs state
Mathematics10%-30 vs state

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Frequently Asked Questions about Roosevelt Junior High School

Students who attend Roosevelt Junior High School usually go on to attend Thornton Township High School

In the 2024-25 school year, 130 students attended Roosevelt Junior High School.

Students at Roosevelt Junior High School are 92% African American, 5% Hispanic, 2% White.

Roosevelt Junior High School ranks in the bottom 24.4% of Illinois middle schools.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau, the Illinois Department of Public Health and the Illinois State Board of Education.

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