Roosevelt Elementary School, Port Angeles WA

Original Research by School Decision on Roosevelt Elementary School

Roosevelt Elementary serves students from pre-kindergarten through sixth grade in the city of Port Angeles, on Washington’s Olympic Peninsula. The school is part of the Port Angeles School District and sits within the city, not on a remote campus. Port Angeles is the primary urban center of the North Olympic Peninsula and the Clallam County seat, a mix of residential neighborhoods, a working waterfront, and civic functions tied to its role as the gateway to Olympic National Park. Major employers include the National Park headquarters, a Coast Guard air station, Peninsula College, and the Port of Port Angeles. The downtown has a traditional street grid and sits along the Strait of Juan de Fuca, with views of Vancouver Island and regular ferry service to Victoria, British Columbia. Growth is modest, constrained by geography between the Olympic Mountains and the strait.

Roosevelt Elementary has a student body that is predominantly white, with a Hispanic population and a share of students who identify with two or more races. A majority of students qualify for free or reduced-price meals, which places the school in a higher-needs context relative to many schools in the region.

State testing results from the most recent year show a mixed picture across grade levels and subjects. In English language arts, third and fourth graders reached proficiency at rates near the midpoint of the local range, while fifth and sixth graders posted lower results. Math proficiency was strongest in third and fourth grades, but dropped off considerably in fifth and sixth grades, where fewer than one in three students met the bar. Science, tested only in fifth grade, landed roughly in the middle of the school’s own performance spread. When compared to other elementary schools in the district clusters of Clallam County, Roosevelt’s overall proficiency across tested subjects and grades falls below the midpoint of the county’s districts. A parent considering the school may want to ask about the steps being taken to strengthen math and reading performance in the upper elementary grades, where the results show a noticeable dip.

The school is a regular public school and does not have charter or magnet status. Information about discipline rates, chronic absenteeism, staffing ratios, and course access was not available, so a full picture of day-to-day student experience and support is incomplete. Civil rights metrics and special population counts, such as for students with disabilities and English learners, were also missing from the data. These gaps mean a parent looking for detail on special education services or newcomer support will need to inquire directly with the school or district.

Housing in the Port Angeles area carries a price-to-income ratio that is above the national average, reflecting the broader pressures of the West Coast housing market. Home values in the zip code serve the school are roughly in line with state benchmarks but well above national medians. Rents, by comparison, are more moderate relative to local incomes, and renting is currently cheaper than buying with a typical mortgage. For families moving into the area, the rental market may offer a more accessible entry point than homeownership.

The Port Angeles School District did not show any recent major changes or strategic initiatives in publicly available records, leaving prospective families without a clear signal about direction or investment. Roosevelt Elementary appears to serve a stable, mid-sized student population within a district that has not signaled large-scale shifts. For a family weighing options, the school offers a full pre-K through sixth grade span in a community with strong ties to outdoor recreation and civic life, but the academic results in the upper elementary grades warrant a focused conversation with the principal about how the school supports students during those transition years before middle school.

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Academic performance

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

Math

Grade 350%

School 50% · District 59% · ▼ 9 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 451%

School 51% · District 52% · ▼ 1 pts below district

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

Grade 524%

School 24% · District 44% · ▼ 20 pts below district

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 15 pts below county median

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 42% · ▼ 12 pts below district

▼ 7 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 347%

School 47% · District 54% · ▼ 6 pts below district

even with state median · ▼ 6 pts below county median

Grade 448%

School 48% · District 54% · ▼ 6 pts below district

▼ 1 pts below state median · even with county median

Grade 534%

School 34% · District 59% · ▼ 25 pts below district

▼ 19 pts below state median · ▼ 23 pts below county median

Grade 632%

School 32% · District 48% · ▼ 15 pts below district

▼ 15 pts below state median · even with county median

Science

Grade 546%

School 46% · District 63% · ▼ 17 pts below district

▼ 6 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

This schoolPort Angeles School District, 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-income35%Higher-income67%31 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income42%Higher-income60%18 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income27%Higher-income45%18 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income27%Higher-income39%12 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income46%Higher-income57%11 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income46%Higher-income60%14 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income17%Higher-income35%18 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income24%Higher-income38%14 pp gap