Summary
Roosevelt High School is a public high school in Portland, Oregon, serving grades 9–12 in Portland School District 1J with roughly 1,450 students. The district overall ranks 12th of 141 Oregon districts (91st percentile, 5 stars), but Roosevelt itself ranks 189th of 271 Oregon high schools in 2025–2026 — the 30th percentile, or 2 stars. That is still a meaningful climb from the mid-2010s, when the school sat in the bottom 4–10th percentile statewide. Keep in mind, though, that 2024–2025 was only the 14th percentile, so the newest result looks more like a rebound than a steady rise.
Outcomes are mixed. The graduation rate is 70.4%, below both the district (82.5%) and state (83.0%), and chronic absenteeism is 53.8% — more than half the student body, about 21 points above the district and 20 points above the state. Test scores follow an unusual pattern: 35.7% proficiency in English language arts and 11.5% in math, both well below district and state, while science (31.6%) edges slightly above the state average. Math is the clearest academic red flag. At 11.5%, Roosevelt is higher than only Alliance High School (9.1%), Jefferson High School (5.6%) and Community School (under 5%), and far below Benson Polytechnic High School (25.8%), Lincoln High School (46.7%), Grant High School (54.1%) and Beaverton Academy of Science and Engineering (56.9%).
Resources do not appear to be the whole story. Roosevelt spends $23,236 per student — more than Grant, Lincoln, Sunset High School or Westview High School, and with a smaller student-teacher ratio (16.1) than most of them — yet trails them academically. Within the same district, Grant and Lincoln rank in the 85th–90th percentiles with graduation rates near 89–94% and chronic absenteeism around 34–36%, compared with Roosevelt's 30th percentile. Results also vary across student groups, with most below the state median, though several improved over the prior year. Overall, Roosevelt is a school in transition: improving from a low base and relatively strong in science, but still facing real challenges in math, attendance and graduation.
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