Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary is a PK–5 school at 2535 N 73rd St in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, serving 396 students in the Wauwatosa School District just across the border from Milwaukee. It ranks in the top 13% of Wisconsin elementary schools — 87th percentile in 2025-26, down from a five-year peak of 94th–96th percentile between 2020-21 and 2023-24 — and it consistently outperforms its own district, which sits at the 67th percentile statewide.

Roosevelt beats both its district and the state in seven of eight tested subjects and grades. Fourth grade is the showcase: 80.30% proficient in English language arts, 78.79% in math, 86.36% in social studies, and 80.30% in science. Social studies has been the school's steadiest strength for four years. The one exception is third grade math at 50.94%, the only measure where Roosevelt trails the district (by about 11 points) and the state (by about 4 points). That looks like a single-year dip rather than a trend — the same grade scored 73.44, 73.02, and 72.31 in the prior three years, and those students posted 78.79% in fourth grade math the following year.

Among its Wauwatosa peers, Roosevelt has the highest free/reduced lunch rate (26.26%), the largest enrollment, the highest student-teacher ratio (13.3), and the lowest per-pupil spending ($14,451) — yet it ranks second only to Lincoln Elementary in statewide percentile. Chronic absenteeism is 10.8%, below the district's 12.6% and the state's 17.3%, but the highest among Wauwatosa elementaries, where McKinley Elementary is at 4.5%. For contrast, the nearest school, Eighty-First Street Elementary (0.71 miles away), sits at the 3rd percentile with 46.6% chronic absenteeism. Meanwhile Milwaukee German Immersion, 1.53 miles away with a similar poverty rate, posts competitive results with a student-teacher ratio of 22.3.