Roosevelt High School

Size

Of the 12 high schools in St. Louis City School District, Roosevelt High School is the 2nd largest, with 4.1% of the district's students. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 1.8 miles away with a median enrollment of 358; Roosevelt High School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 10 with 249 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 136, against an average of 184 per grade. This year grade 12 has 32% fewer students than grade 9 (136 against 199). Each grade is a different group of students, so the gap is not a dropout or growth rate.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 61.9% here and 74.8% across St. Louis City. Hispanic students are next, at 22.3%. Students from all 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

100% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 100% across St. Louis City and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 51.9% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 60.85 full-time-equivalent teachers for 734 students, Roosevelt High School has 12.1 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 734 students would have about 60.2 teachers, so Roosevelt High School has about as many as that.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Roosevelt High School is inside a principal city of 250,000 people or more, which NCES calls city, large. The nearest other high school is MO School for the Blind - HS, 0.7 miles away in MO School for the Blind. Within 10 miles there are 38 other high schools, 21 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.