Roosevelt Elementary School

We moved to Santa Monica for the schools and have since grown to really regret that decision. Kids are nice enough, but teachers are robots, administrators are tyrants, and parents are inconsequential (unless almost famous).

The competency levels of the school administration are very low. The great school rating as a key performance indicator reflects a decline in the quality of education from 10/10 to 8/10 now.

Top notch public school - very progressive and effective approach to learning. I have 2 daughters there (now 3rd and 4th grades). Neither were big readers in Kinder or First. Since we moved to reading nightly for homework, their reading level, comprehension and love have sky-rocketed. The schools approach to learning math and science are not the standard we learned in school. My now fourth grader scored literally a perfect score in Verbal and missed one or two on Math in the California State wide testing last year. Their teachers are loving and supportive. I LOVE this school.

Generally good, but the leadership of this school have made several tactical errors, reducing parent involvement and providing inadequate support for disadvantaged students as indicated by the overall reduction in scoring.