Roosevelt Elementary School, Stevensville MI

Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary School

Roosevelt Elementary School sits in Stevensville, a small lakeside village in Berrien County that began as a farming community along a rail line and grew into a residential spot with a compact downtown, a brewery, and easy access to Lake Michigan. The village is less than a mile from the lake and just south of St. Joseph, part of the Benton Harbor and St. Joseph Twin Cities urban area. Public school students here are served by Lakeshore School District (Berrien), shared with neighboring Baroda. Stevensville's population has been essentially flat over recent census cycles, and its small footprint limits large-scale development, so the community carries a quiet, settled feel with event-driven street life: a car show in early June, a village-wide garage sale, family fun night in August, and Christmas in the Village in December.

Roosevelt serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade as a regular public school. The enrollment is moderate for an elementary building, and the student body is predominantly white, with small Asian and Hispanic shares and a few students from other racial backgrounds. Just over a quarter of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which is a relatively low share and points to a community with modest economic pressure rather than concentrated need. The school does not report IEP or English-learner figures in the data available, so parents seeking information about special education or language-support services would want to ask the school directly.

On Michigan's M-STEP assessments, Roosevelt's results are a genuine strength in the early grades and present a more mixed picture by fifth grade. Third-grade math proficiency is strong, with roughly three-quarters of tested students meeting or exceeding the standard. Fourth-grade math dips but remains solid. Fifth-grade math falls to where fewer than half of tested students are proficient, a pattern a parent may want to explore further with the school to understand whether it reflects a cohort issue, a curricular transition, or something else. English language arts tells a steadier story across all three tested grades, with proficiency holding in the mid-sixties range from third through fifth grade. Fifth-grade science lands at a respectable level, with a clear majority proficient. Social studies is the softest spot, with fewer than half of fifth-graders reaching proficiency. Taken together, the school's overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades places it in the top quartile relative to districts in Berrien County, which is a strong standing for the region.

The housing market around Roosevelt reflects the lakeside draw. Typical home values in the school's zip code sit above the state benchmark but below the national figure, and recent year-over-year appreciation has been solid. The price-to-income ratio is near four times median household income, and estimated monthly mortgage costs run above typical rent, which gives a sense of the cost structure for families considering a move into the attendance area. Rent data was not available.

Stevensville's civic and recreational life is rich for a village of its size. Grand Mere State Park offers Lake Michigan shoreline, dunes, and inland lakes for fishing and kayaking. Lincoln Township Park has a splash pad, courts, and playgrounds. The Garden Ice Arena provides year-round skating. Two private Lutheran schools, St. Paul's and Christ Lutheran, serve Pre-K through grade eight in the village, giving families faith-based alternatives. No village library branch or fixed-route transit was identified in the available sources. The district brief did not surface any major recent changes or initiatives, so there is little to report on that front.

Roosevelt reads as a solid elementary option in a stable, lakeside community, with strong early-grade results and a countywide academic standing that compares well. The fifth-grade math and social-studies results are the areas where a parent would want to ask questions. For families drawn to small-town life near Lake Michigan with a walkable downtown and community events, this is a place where the school matches the setting.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 373%

School 73% · District 63% · ▲ 10 pts above district

▲ 31 pts above state median · ▲ 28 pts above county median

Grade 462%

School 62% · District 63% · ▼ 1 pts below district

▲ 23 pts above state median · ▲ 16 pts above county median

Grade 542%

School 42% · District 51% · ▼ 9 pts below district

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

English language arts

Grade 365%

School 65% · District 52% · ▲ 14 pts above district

▲ 27 pts above state median · ▲ 23 pts above county median

Grade 469%

School 69% · District 63% · ▲ 6 pts above district

▲ 28 pts above state median · ▲ 19 pts above county median

Grade 565%

School 65% · District 65%

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

Science

Grade 556%

School 56% · District 56%

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

Social studies

Grade 547%

School 47% · District 43% · ▲ 4 pts above district

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

This schoolLakeshore School District (Berrien), 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-income39%Higher-income80%41 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income43%Higher-income77%34 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income42%Higher-income76%34 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income57%Higher-income83%26 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income21%Higher-income73%51 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income17%Higher-income53%36 pp gap