The top reported proficiency rate is 68% in Math. The lowest is 66% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary School
Roosevelt Elementary School is one of several elementary schools in the Mason City Community School District, serving students from pre-kindergarten through fourth grade. It is a regular public school, not a charter or magnet, operating within a mixed-use regional hub in north-central Iowa. Mason City functions as the county seat of Cerro Gordo County and anchors a regional economy built around healthcare, manufacturing, education, retail, and food processing. The local housing market is modestly priced compared to state and national benchmarks, and the school draws its enrollment from the surrounding neighborhoods within the city.
The school serves a student body that is predominantly white, with a substantial share of students identifying as Hispanic, Black, Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander, or two or more races. A large majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, an indicator of the economic profile of the families the school serves. The district did not report data on students with Individualized Education Programs or English learner classifications for this school; a parent may want to ask the school directly about the availability of special education and English language support services.
Academically, Roosevelt’s students took the Iowa Statewide Assessment of Student Progress in the most recent testing year. In both math and reading, a majority of students scored at or above the proficiency threshold, though the rates sit below the midpoint among districts in Cerro Gordo County. The school has only a single year of data reported from this assessment, so there is no trend line to indicate whether performance is improving or declining. The participation rate on the test was high, which means the results reliably reflect the overall student population.
Because Roosevelt serves only grades PK through 4, there is no graduation rate, no chronic absenteeism rate, and no data on high school course access or college readiness programming. These metrics are simply not applicable to an elementary school operating in this grade band. For families considering the longer arc, the Mason City Community School District continues through the upper grades at its middle and high schools.
The district brief did not reveal any major recent changes to leadership, boundaries, programming, or facilities that would alter a family’s understanding of what Roosevelt offers today. The school sits within a city that has experienced gradual population decline over recent decades, and the local economy, while diversified, has not seen a major new housing development identified in publicly available sources. This suggests a relatively stable enrollment context, neither rapidly growing nor in sharp contraction.
For a family looking at this school, the picture is one of a neighborhood elementary that serves a high-needs population with academic results that are solid but not leading the county. The school provides the early grades in a district that has not flagged any program expansions here. A parent considering Roosevelt should feel comfortable asking the principal or district office about class sizes, reading intervention models, and how the school supports students who are below proficiency, since the reported rates leave room for improvement and the available data does not show how the school is addressing that.
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