Roosevelt High School Profile

Updated September 24, 2007

General Information

1410 NE 66th St.
Seattle, WA 98115
206-252-4810
Principal: Brian Vance
ETS CODE: 481-140

Population Information

Total Student Population (September 2007): 1744

Category	Number	Percentage
Black	159	9.2%
American Indian/Alaska Native	27	1.5%
Asian	358	20.5%
Hispanic	133	7.6%
Filipino	34	1.9%
Gypsy	4	.02%
White	1045	59.9%
Federal Meal Subsidy	379	21.7%
Bilingual (ELD)	377 eligible	21.6 % eligible
	195 in ELD classes/special ed classes	11.2 % in ELD/special ed classes

Highlights

Roosevelt is a comprehensive urban high school with a student body reflective of Seattle's diversity. Any student in Seattle may choose Roosevelt pursuant to the District's open enrollment policy. Because we have so many strong programs, we are usually overenrolled, and preference is given to siblings and those with closer geographic proximity. We are accredited by the Northwest Association of Schools/Colleges, and hold membership in NACAC, PNACAC, and the Washington Council for High School-College Relations. After two years in an interim location, Roosevelt moved back last year to a beautifully renovated school.

Roosevelt enjoys a reputation for excellence in academics and the performing arts. The students in the drama and music programs travel extensively and have earned regional and national recognition. The drama department, named one of the top ten high school theatre programs in the United States, has Roosevelt alums regularly performing in shows playing on Broadway and won four star reviews at the 2007 Edinburgh Fringe Festival, the largest Theatre Arts Festival in the world.

The outstanding music program includes a Jazz Ensemble, which has placed first or second in the nation at the Lincoln Center's Essentially Ellington Jazz Band Competition multiple times in recent years. Our French, Japanese, Latin and Spanish programs enjoy national distinction. Roosevelt is closely partnered with the University of Washington's Henry Art Gallery and Jackson School of International Studies; speakers, events and seminars enrich both our students and staff, including "Hands For a Bridge", a Roosevelt program which allows students and staff to travel to Belfast and to Cape Town, as well as bringing students and staff from those areas to Roosevelt. Roosevelt News, our school newspaper, won the National Pacemaker Award for the 2004-2005 paper, and our Yearbook, Strenuous Life, won state wide honors for its 2006-2007 theme and layout.

The class of 2008 has13 Commended National Merit Scholars, and seven National Merit Semi Finalists. Last year we had 10 Commended Scholars, and our four National Merit Semi-Finalists were all named as National Merit Finalists. In addition to our strengths in academics and performing arts, Roosevelt boasts a strong athletic program, with a significant number of students turning out for high school sports. The Roosevelt Girls' Basketball team won the 2003-2004 state 4A high school championship in March 2004, as featured in the nationally released Miramax film, "Heart of the Game". We are also proud of an award winning culinary arts program.

Grading and Ranking Procedures

Grade distribution is A, B, C, D, and N (no credit). N grades are not computed into the GPA. GPA and class rank are both unweighted.

Graduation Requirements for the Class of 2008

GPA - 2.0 cumulative and core (LA, SS, math, science)
20 credits (as follows):

1 credit fine arts (graphic arts and photo both count as fine arts)
.5 credit health
3 credits LA (LA 9, LA 10, four one semester LA options classes for grades 11 and 12)
2 credits math
1.5 credits PE
1.5 credits occupational
2 credits science
3 credits social studies (including WA History, 1 credit U.S. History, .5 credits American Govt.)
5.5 elective credits

Students in the class of 2008 must additionally meet reading and writing standards on the Washington Assessment of Student Learning (WASL) or specified alternatives.

Honors, AP and Running Start

Honors Classes (H on Transcript)

Language Arts
Honors option is available in all regular LA classes in grades 10 through 12. Students choose honors contract to earn "H" on transcript. There are no separate LA honors classes offered.

Mathematics
Math 2H
Math 3H
Precalculus H
Calculus (non AP)

Science
Advanced Physics
Biochemistry (offered every other year beginning 2005-2006)

Social Science
American Government H

World Language
3rd year Latin
4th year Japanese

AP Classes (AP on Transcript)

Calculus
Statistics
European History
U.S. History
American Government
Comparative Government
Chemistry (offered every other year beginning 2004-2005)
French
Spanish
Latin
Japanese
Running Start (RS on Transcript)

Juniors and seniors who pass a community college placement test may take classes at local community colleges for concurrent high school and college credit.

2007 SAT and ACT Scores

SAT scores (2007)

Sat I Mean for Roosevelt students	Critical Reading 558	Math 572	Writing 549	n=280
Sat I mean for students with SAT II	Critical Reading 612	Math 628	Writing 610	n=91

ACT scores (2007)

Average for Roosevelt students

English 24.5

Math 24.5

Reading 25.1

Science 23.7

Composite 24.5

n=111

Class of 2007 College Admissions

College Admissions for the Class of 2007

College enrollment:	91.6% (out of 357 graduates)
Four-year institutions:	237 students (66.3%)
Two-year institutions:	90 students (25.3%)

RHS Graduates College Placements

The following list of institutions at which June 2007 graduates are matriculating is representative of where our graduates have gone the past four years.

Four Year Schools in Washington State

133 (37.2% of graduating seniors) of our students matriculating at four-year schools are staying in Washington.

65 grads are going to the University of Washington. Other four-year schools in Washington at which Roosevelt grads are matriculating, both public and private, include Western Washington (24), Whitman (11), Washington State (8), Central Washington University (5), Seattle University (4), Cornish (1), Evergreen College (3), University of Puget Sound (3), Art Institute of Seattle (3); UW Bothell (2), Seattle Pacific (2), St. Martin's (1), Gonzaga (1).

Four Year Out of State Schools

104 Rider grads (29% of graduating seniors) will be attending out-of-state/international four-year colleges and universities, both public and private.

Four-year schools represented include American University (2), Bard College (1), Brandeis (1), Brown (1), California Polytechnic (1), Chapman (2), College of Santa Fe (1), Colorado College (2), Columbia College Chicago (1), Cornell (1), Dartmouth (1), Drexel (1), Earlham (1), Emerson (1), Goucher (1), George Washington (1), Georgia State (1), Grinnell (1), Guilford (1), Hampshire (1), Humboldt (2), Indiana (1), Ithaca College (3), Kenyon (2), Lewis and Clark (2), Macalester (2), Menlo (2), Mercer (1), Middlebury (1), Nebraska Wesleyan (1), New England Conservatory (1), New York Univ. (2), Northeastern (2), Oberlin (1), Occidental (2), Oregon State (2), Otis College of Art & Design (1), Point Loma Nazarene (1), Pomona (1), Portland State (1), Prescott (1), Rice (1), Santa Clara (4), Sarah Lawrence (1), Skidmore (2), Smith (1), Southern Oregon (1), Stanford (2), Swarthmore 91), Temple (1), Tufts (1), Univ. of Arizona (2), Univ. of British Columbia (2), Univ. of California-Santa Barbara (1), Univ. of Cincinnati (1), Univ. of Colorado-Boulder (3), Univ. of Denver (1) Univ. of Iowa (1), Univ. of Miami (3), Univ. of Nebraska (1), Univ. of Oregon (6), Univ. of Redlands (1), Univ. of Rochester (1), Univ. of San Francisco (3), Univ. of Southern California (1), Univ. of Tulsa (1), Univ. of Utah, Univ. of Victoria (1), Univ. of Wisconsin (1), Willamette Univ. (3).