Roosevelt Elementary School is located in the heart of New Brunswick. The school has an enrollment of 700 students in Kindergarten through 5^th grade. The town is culturally diverse and the home of Rutgers University. Roosevelt School is committed to Preparing, Empowering and Inspiring life-long learners and leaders. We strive to build strong relationships with students, parents and the community at large. 

Our dedicated staff works diligently to ensure that our students are immersed in a learning environment that is engaging, challenging and supportive. We have developed a professional learning community where we share and learn from one another. By doing so, we ensure rigorous high-level tasks during our delivery of instruction, which is aligned to the Common Core Standards. Our teachers are enrolled and engaged in professional development that focuses on the latest educational trends and best practices.

We work to provide Parent Workshops that prepare our parents to better assist their children at home. We encourage our staff, parents, and students to work as a family, not only to celebrate our accomplishments, but also to learn from our challenges in order to make us stronger and better able to conquer our dreams. It is the core practice of “I Can, I Will, I Must.” The “I Can” represents the affirmation of our professional abilities to deliver meaningful instruction. The “I Will” denotes the desire to improve and achieve school goals. Finally, the “I Must” recognizes the urgency to maximize student achievement and meet our benchmarks. 

Our Music department has expanded tremendously over the past two years. Our instrumental music program has increased by 150% since the 2014-2015 school year. In addition, we offer a strings program to our students in fourth and fifth grade. Our third-grade students are introduced to the recorders in the 2nd marking period.

We are fortunate to have students of the Arts at Roosevelt School. Our second and third-grade students are the beneficiaries of the Dance Power Program. These students are given explicit dance instruction by the American Repertory Ballet’s Princeton Ballet School, during their physical education periods and, at the culmination of their training, perform in a recital at the State New Bruswick High School. New Brunswick Public School District also has a partnership with Robert Wood Johnson Fitness and Wellness Center. Through this long-standing relationship, swimming lessons are provided for all fourth-grade students. 

Chromebooks have been issued to students in third through fifth-grade classrooms. The kindergarten through second-grade classrooms have access to laptop carts, containing twenty-five laptops in each cart. Children work on programs to further enhance and practice skills learned through lessons that are geared to support student's critical thinking and problem-solving. 

Students in grades K-5 attend a weekly Spanish class with a certified Spanish teacher. During this period, students are immersed in the language. For some, it reinforces the Spanish vocabulary they may already have; however, for others, it opens their world to a second language.

Throughout the regular school day, students may receive basic skills instruction in language arts and/or mathematics. This intervention is based on student needs Multiple data points are used to determine what students will be enrolled in the program. Students enrolled in basic skills' instruction attend one period a day, up to four days a week. 

We have a full-time school guidance counselor and social worker available throughout the day to help students with personal as well as academic issues. Both the school counselor and the social worker provide lunch groups to assist students in problem-solving, social skills development, self-esteem and other concerns that may arise. The counselors have trained our teachers to implement lessons in social-emotional learning and support classrooms as needed. They have also supported teachers in creating classroom environments that foster social and emotional growth.