Roosevelt Annual Report

Alternative Text: Roosevelt Annual Report

February 2, 2025    

Dear Parents and Community Members:

We are pleased to present you with the Annual Education Report (AER), which provides key information on the 2024-25 educational progress for Roosevelt Elementary. The AER addresses the complex reporting information required by federal and state laws. The school’s report contains information about student assessment, accountability, and teacher quality. If you have any questions about the AER, please contact Peter Rogovich for assistance.

The AER is available for you to review electronically by visiting the following website https://bit.ly/3rCPG2j or you may review a copy in the main office at your child’s school.

For the 2024-25 school year, schools were identified based on previous years’ performance using definitions and labels as required in the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). A Targeted Support and Improvement (TSI) school is one that had at least one underperforming student subgroup in 2018-19. An Additional Targeted Support (ATS) school is one that had a student subgroup performing at the same level as the lowest 5% of all schools in the state in 2017-18. A Comprehensive Support and Improvement (CSI) school is one whose performance was in the lowest 5% of all schools in the state or had a graduation rate at or below 67% in 2016-17. Some schools are not identified with any of these labels. In these cases, no label is given.

Fortunately, our school has not been given one of these labels. 

Increasing academic achievement for all students is always our goal. With a new ELA curriculum this year, all classrooms are required to have 3-50 minute blocks (ELA, Shared Reading and Differentiated Instruction) per day along with a Tier II (WIN – What I Need) 30-minute intervention for all students. The WIN intervention occurred 4-5 days per week. Throughout the year we worked together to collect data and refine our instruction during the block. We provided more interventions in reading and math for students by increasing our Title I support. Our Title I staff (teacher and interventionists) and resource room teachers pushed into classrooms to support students when appropriate. 

As Zeeland Public Schools continue the implementation of the Professional Learning Community model, Roosevelt staff is laying the foundation for this work.  Teachers have outlined essential standards and common formative assessments in math. We are excited to delve into the deeper work around math and other curricular areas that make up a true Professional Learning Community.

State law requires that we also report additional information that we have included below from the 2022-23 & 2023-24 school years:

PROCESS FOR ASSIGNING PUPILS TO THE SCHOOL

Students in Zeeland are assigned based upon their geographical home location.  ZPS 

also offers school of choice openings, which are placed after the residents of Zeeland are assigned to their home school.  Our Spanish Immersion & Balanced Calendar PBL programs are filled on a first come, first served basis and may change the building of choice for students.  There are 7 elementary schools in Zeeland and those schools feed into two middle schools, Creekside and Cityside.  New Groningen, Roosevelt, ZQuest, and Quincy elementaries feed into Creekside Middle School and eventually to Zeeland West High School. Adams, Lincoln and Woodbridge elementaries feed into Cityside Middle School, and eventually to Zeeland West High School.

THE STATUS OF THE 3-5 YEAR SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT PLAN

Over the past three years, the district has been working through steps in the MICIP platform to identify three key goal areas:  SEL (social-emotional learning), Mathematics, and English Language Arts.  ZPS elementaries have implemented Second Step, a social-emotional core learning resource.  At Roosevelt, our focus has been around our entire MTSS-B work, teaching and supporting students around our building expectations, recognition of students meeting those expectations and identifying students in need of Tier II and Tier III support. A PreK-12 Math Coalition has worked to examine math achievement and instructional practices across the district.  Essential standards are being identified at all grade levels.  At Roosevelt, our focus has been to support students in achieving grade level learning while filling in gaps from previous years due to the loss of learning during the pandemic. The district is just beginning to examine ELA data, following an implementation cycle that began 9 years ago to determine strengths and needs.  At Roosevelt, we have identified the following strengths and needs which include our systemic, intentional phonics programming to ensure a solid foundation and the need to meet individual deficit skills utilizing small group instruction as well as individual conferring. 

A BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF EACH SPECIALIZED SCHOOL

Students in the elementary program at Zeeland Public Schools are given the opportunity to participate in a variety of experiences in addition to traditional education programs that include special education, Gifted and Talented for 4th/5th grade students, Spanish Immersion, and Zeeland Quest (a K-8, year-round balanced calendar, project-based learning school).

IDENTIFY HOW TO ACCESS A COPY OF THE CORE CURRICULUM, A DESCRIPTION OF ITS IMPLEMENTATION, AND AN EXPLANATION OF THE VARIANCES FROM THE STATE’S MODEL

The Core Curriculum for our school is based upon the State of Michigan Standards and National Common Core Standards. This information is available at our school office or on our district website. Zeeland Public Schools makes sure our students are provided challenging lessons that are consistent across grade levels. A team of Zeeland educators regularly evaluates and revises our curriculum to ensure that classroom lessons meet state requirements for kindergarten through twelfth grade. 

THE AGGREGATE STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT RESULTS FOR ANY LOCAL COMPETENCY TESTS OR NATIONALLY NORMED ACHIEVEMENT TESTS

IDENTIFY THE NUMBER AND PERCENT OF STUDENTS REPRESENTED BY PARENTS AT PARENT-TEACHER CONFERENCES

During the 2023-2024 school year, Roosevelt had 251/259, comprising 97% of parents representing their student(s) at parent-teacher conferences. 

CONCLUSION

ZPS is proud of the work happening in each building.  The commitment of district staff to ensure that all Zeeland students are able to learn in an environment where they feel safe, valued, loved and learning is evident at all levels.  At Roosevelt, we are particularly proud of the strength of our staff and in their ability to foster relationships with students and families. With the partnership of family and community, we take pride in fostering lifelong learners.

Sincerely,

Peter Rogovich
Principal