The top reported proficiency rate is 23% in English language arts. The lowest is 20% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary
Roosevelt Elementary sits on West Sonora Avenue in Tulare, a Central Valley city whose economy runs on agriculture, food processing, and logistics. The school serves kindergarten through fourth grade, so there is no graduation rate to report and no high school course access to evaluate. State testing in California begins in third grade, which means kindergarten, first, and second graders at Roosevelt are not yet captured in assessment data at all.
For the grades that are tested, the picture is candid. On California's CAASPP Smarter Balanced assessments in the most recent school year, Roosevelt's third graders performed below grade-level proficiency in both English language arts and math, and fourth graders were similarly below proficiency in both subjects, with math proficiency among fourth graders being particularly low. Across all tested grades combined, Roosevelt's overall proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile relative to districts in Tulare County. That is the honest read of the data, and families considering the school should ask the school directly about what supports are in place, how instruction is scaffolded for students who are behind, and what the trend looks like over time. Only one year of data is available here, so no trend line can be drawn.
The student body is almost entirely Hispanic, and the overwhelming majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. That level of economic need is a defining feature of the school's context, not a judgment on the school's work. Data on English learner enrollment and students with IEPs was not available in the records reviewed.
On curriculum, the Tulare City School District adopted a new core math program, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt's "Into Math," across all K-8 schools in 2023, publicly reported by the district. Students also use online tools for practice and fact fluency. That adoption means every school in the district, including Roosevelt, is working from the same standardized math materials, so families moving within the district will find continuity. No comparable curriculum change was identified for English language arts. The district covers only kindergarten through eighth grade, so there is no bond or parcel tax specific to this K-8 district found in recent records.
The broader Tulare setting is worth understanding for families weighing a move. Home values in the zip code are well below California's statewide average, and publicly reported rankings placed Tulare among California's most affordable housing markets in recent years. The city is growing modestly and adding housing, especially along Cartmill Avenue. Downtown Tulare has a compact historic core with the library, City Hall, and a recently renovated park, but the city as a whole is car-oriented, and most residential neighborhoods, including the area around West Sonora Avenue, require a vehicle for daily errands. Major employers include food processing firms, a large feed manufacturing company, healthcare through Adventist Health, and the distribution and logistics operations that anchor the broader county economy.
Chronic absenteeism data for Roosevelt was not available in the records reviewed, which is a gap worth asking the school about directly, since attendance patterns in the early grades shape everything else. Staffing ratios and discipline data were also not reported here. What is clear is that this is a neighborhood elementary school serving a high-poverty, predominantly Latino community in one of California's more affordable mid-sized cities, operating under a recently standardized math curriculum, with current assessment results that sit in the lower range for Tulare County and well below state proficiency benchmarks. Parents who want to understand how the school is responding to those results, and what individual student support looks like, should have that conversation with the principal before enrolling.
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