Roosevelt Elementary, Dinuba CA - Test Scores & Data

Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary

Roosevelt Elementary serves students from kindergarten through sixth grade in Dinuba, a small agricultural city in Tulare County's San Joaquin Valley. The school sits within a community shaped by food processing and produce distribution, where most housing is single-family homes and the downtown core sits roughly two miles from school, anchored by a library and civic buildings near El Monte Way.

The enrollment is just over six hundred students, with a substantial majority qualifying for free or reduced-price lunch. Nearly all students are Hispanic, reflecting both the city's demographic profile and the broader composition of the Central Valley. The school's specific count of English learner and special education students is not available in public data.

State assessment results from the most recent year show proficiency that lags behind the county median. In English language arts, just over half of third graders met proficiency, but that share dropped sharply by fourth grade and then recovered somewhat in grades five and six. Math proficiency is weaker across the board, with third grade at just under three-fifths proficient but falling to roughly one-third by fourth grade and holding there through sixth grade. Science proficiency in the tested grade, fifth, is just under one-third. These results place Roosevelt in the top quartile of Tulare County schools on an overall proficiency index, a position that reflects both Roosevelt's own performance and the broader performance distribution across county schools; a parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand what that positioning means for their own child.

The grade-by-grade pattern across math and English suggests a transition challenge around fourth grade, where proficiency dips. This is a common inflection point in elementary school, when instruction often shifts from foundational skills to application and deeper problem-solving. Whether Roosevelt's dip reflects a curriculum change, a cohort effect, or a wider support gap at that level is not clear from the data alone.

Dinuba Unified is investing substantially in its schools. A brand-new high school campus opened in January 2025, and voters approved a sizable bond measure in November 2024 that will fund facility upgrades across aging school sites, including water system repairs, asbestos and mold removal, HVAC and electrical updates, and expanded career technical education spaces. These investments will unfold over time and may shape the school environment and resource availability at Roosevelt in the coming years, though the bond's immediate impact will be most visible at middle and high school grades first.

The district has also secured multiple Golden State Pathway grants for career and technical education, launching pathways in automotive technology, computer science, construction, medical fields, digital media, and manufacturing. These opportunities exist at the high school level but signal a district commitment to expanding options for students entering seventh grade and beyond.

Roosevelt itself is a neighborhood school without specialized programs or magnet designation. It is a regular public elementary school, unremarkable in structure but embedded in a community with real economic challenges and a school system making deliberate moves to modernize. A family choosing Roosevelt is choosing a walkable neighborhood school in a working-class city where schools are a focus of recent investment and where most students share similar socioeconomic circumstances.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 358%

School 58% · District 53% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 15 pts above state median · ▲ 22 pts above county median

Grade 436%

School 36% · District 36%

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 35% · ▼ 2 pts below district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 10 pts above county median

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 30% · ▲ 1 pts above district

▲ 2 pts above state median · ▲ 9 pts above county median

English language arts

Grade 354%

School 54% · District 49% · ▲ 5 pts above district

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 17 pts above county median

Grade 441%

School 41% · District 42% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▲ 7 pts above county median

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 46% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 11 pts above state median · ▲ 21 pts above county median

Grade 657%

School 57% · District 54% · ▲ 3 pts above district

▲ 13 pts above state median · ▲ 20 pts above county median

Science

Grade 531%

School 31% · District 21% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 3 pts above state median · ▲ 12 pts above county median

This schoolDinuba Unified, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income50%Higher-income75%25 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income38%Higher-income56%19 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income51%Higher-income77%25 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income55%Higher-income67%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income58%Higher-income58%0 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income32%Higher-income50%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income31%Higher-income41%10 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income27%Higher-income53%26 pp gap