Summary:
ZIP code 53205 contains exactly one middle school, Roosevelt Middle, which serves grades 6–8 with 270 students at 800 W Walnut St, Milwaukee, and belongs to the Milwaukee School District. Because it is the only middle school in the area, there is no school-to-school comparison within the ZIP; the useful benchmarks are the district and the state of Wisconsin.
Roosevelt Middle faces a difficult profile. In 2024–25, 95.19% of its students were eligible for free or reduced lunch, per-student spending was $24,016, and the student-teacher ratio was 17.1. Chronic absenteeism stood at 63.0%, well above the district's 46.2% and the state's 17.3% — roughly 3.6 times the state rate. Academic results are also far below benchmarks: the school scored below the district and state in all 16 reported subject, grade, and year comparisons. In 2025–26 its simple average proficiency was 6.46%, compared with 26.26% for the district and 55.51% statewide, with math particularly weak at a 3.97% average and the lowest single result in Mathematics, Grade 6 at 1.33%. Seven of eight reported assessments declined from 2024–25 to 2025–26, with the steepest drops in Social Studies Grade 8 (-14.02 points), ELA Grade 8 (-12.29), Math Grade 8 (-11.21), and Science Grade 8 (-10.95). Math Grade 7 was the only gain, rising from 1.56% to 7.04%.
Rankings confirm the pattern: the school earned 0 stars in 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26, ranging between the 1st and 6th percentile statewide, while the district ranks 418th of 432 at the 3rd percentile. One relative bright spot is the dropout rate of 0.9%, lower than the district's 4.0% and the state's 1.1%, suggesting dropout is not the primary measured concern here. Families should weigh the combination of very high economic need, high spending, very high absenteeism, and low proficiency, while noting the data cannot establish why these patterns exist or how they relate to one another.
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