The top reported proficiency rate is 35% in Math. The lowest is 29% in English language arts.
Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elem School
Roosevelt Elementary serves early grades from pre-K through fifth in Moline, a Mississippi River city with a strong manufacturing base and stable, slowly aging housing stock. The school sits within Moline-Coal Valley CUSD 40, a district currently managing a significant elementary consolidation: Lincoln-Irving and Willard Elementary are being merged into a new combined facility opening in 2027, though Roosevelt itself is not part of that realignment.
The school's enrollment is small to mid-sized for its grade span, with kindergarten through fifth grade distributed across the building. The student body reflects Moline's demographic composition: roughly half white, a quarter Hispanic, an eighth Black, and smaller shares Asian and multiracial. Specific free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, and information on special education and English learner shares was also absent from the school's reporting.
State testing results show Roosevelt students performing below proficiency across measured grades and subjects. In third-grade mathematics, the school recorded proficiency levels below where most peers in Rock Island County stand. Fourth-grade math and English language arts showed similarly low results. By fifth grade, mathematics proficiency declined further, while English proficiency improved somewhat. Fifth-grade science proficiency also fell in the lower range. Across all tested grades and subjects, Roosevelt's overall proficiency index places it above the midpoint among the county's districts, but the individual grade-level results tell a clearer story: most third through fifth graders are not meeting state proficiency standards in core subjects. A parent may want to look into this further with the school to understand what reading, math, and science support strategies the building has in place and whether acceleration or intervention programs are available. Trend data comparing performance across years was not available, so it is unclear whether these results represent a pattern or a recent dip.
The school serves a neighborhood that is car-oriented outside the downtown riverfront core. Housing in Moline's zip code is relatively affordable compared to state and national benchmarks, with median home values and rents below statewide and national medians. The broader community is anchored by John Deere's world headquarters, riverfront parks and trails, and a downtown that has invested in mixed-use riverfront development and transit infrastructure through MetroLINK bus service. The city's population has been roughly stable, with most of the housing stock built before 1980 and recent development concentrated downtown, so neighborhoods near Roosevelt tend to be established rather than newly built.
As part of the district's current elementary reorganization, Roosevelt's landscape is not shifting in the immediate term, though families should be aware that district-wide enrollment decisions and facility changes may affect school assignments or programs in coming years. The school's academic results suggest it serves a population that faces headwinds in reading and mathematics achievement and may benefit from targeted instruction and family partnership on learning at home.
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