Roosevelt Middle School (San Francisco, California)

Roosevelt Middle School is a public middle school located in the Richmond District of San Francisco, California, USA.cite news |title=Roosevelt Middle School gets award-winning paper back |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/01/09/WBGU3445QJ1.DTL |publisher= "San Francisco Chronicle" |date= January 9, 2004 |author = Dave Ford |accessdate= 2008-09-11] Roosevelt is named after President Theodore Roosevelt. It currently educates in grades 6-8. Roosevelt was built on a large city block. The school consists of about 30 classrooms including two bungalows, two gyms, a library, and an auditorium.

History

The school was established on September 3rd 1877 as Lobos Avenue Primary School, and in 1888 became Richmond Primary School. Subsequently the name changed to Roosevelt School. The current school building opened on November 9, 1930 as Roosevelt Junior High School. In 1978 the grade levels were changed from 7-9 to 6-8 and the name was changed to Roosevelt Middle School.cite news |title=Roosevelt Middle School History |url=http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch797/history.htm |publisher= "San Francisco Unified School District" |accessdate= 2008-09-11]

Academics

San Francisco schools, though highly performing in 2008, have an issue with black students falling behind their white peers. Roosevelt Middle was cited as one of three schools where black students were doing well.cite news |title=S.F.'s black students lag far behind whites |url=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/08/15/MNFA12B94A.DTL |publisher= "San Francisco Chronicle" |author= Jill Tucker |accessdate= 2008-09-12 |date= 2008-08-15]

Newspaper

Roosevelt Middle's newspaper, "Highlights", won the American Scholastic Press Association's first place award for best middle-school paper in 1996, 1997, 2002 and 2003.

Events

The students were complimented for their honesty and initiative, in November 1997, when they collected about $4,600 in notes that was dumped in front of the school after a bungled bank robbery.cite news |title=Students Find Stolen Money, Turn It In |url=http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/latimes/access/23605352.html?dids=23605352:23605352&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:FT&date=Nov+25%2C+1997&author=&pub=Los+Angeles+Times&desc=Students+Find+Stolen+Money%2C+Turn+It+In&pqatl=google |publisher= "Los Angeles Times" |accessdate= 2008-09-12 |date= 1997-11-25] cite news |title=Middle-school students rewarded after turning in robbers' stolen loot |url=http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=NewsLibrary&p_multi=DSNB&d_place=DSNB&p_theme=newslibrary2&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0F36494C6A16D906&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM |publisher= "Deseret News" |accessdate= 2008-09-12 |date= 1997-12-06]

References

External links

* [http://www.sfusd.k12.ca.us/schwww/sch797/ Official site]