Roosevelt High School - Wyandotte, Michigan/MI

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Roosevelt High School

540 Eureka Avenue, Wyandotte, MI, 48192-5709 -

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Definition of Terms

Roosevelt High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 9 - 12

County

Wayne County, MI

Students & Faculty

Total Students

1449 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

70 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 9 - 420 students

Grade 10 - 383 students

Grade 11 - 368 students

Grade 12 - 278 students

This School

(MI) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:21

1:20

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(MI) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	1%
% Asian	1%	2%
% Hispanic	3%	4%
% Black	1%	17%
% White	95%	75%

Additional Student Information

This School

(MI) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

16%

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(MI) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Wyandotte City School District

This School's Agency

(MI) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	11	5
Number of Students Managed	4,998 students	1,866 students
District Total Revenue	$54,810,000	$16,392,000
District Expenditure	$58,392,000	$17,260,000
District Revenue / Student	$10,966	$8,785
District Expenditure / Student	$11,683	$9,250
District Graduation Rates	n/a	n/a

Melvindale Football Head Coach Resigns (ClickOnDetroit)
posted on November 8, 2009 at 11:06:39 pm
Melvindale High School football head coach Phil Howard has resigned after a storm of controversy involving racist fliers that were found posted in a locker room.
WYANDOTTE: Teen survives after being struck by train on way to school (The News-Herald)
posted on November 7, 2009 at 03:01:05 pm
WYANDOTTE — Most motorists don’t get hit by a train and live to tell about it.
Boy hit by train, then walks to school (Detroit Free Press)
posted on November 6, 2009 at 08:29:19 am
A 16-year-old high school student from Wyandotte who was clipped by a freight train while taking a shortcut to school Thursday told investigators he was listening to his iPod and didn't hear or see the train, officials said.
Wyandotte teen clipped by train, fractures skull (DeWitt-Bath Review)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:34:18 pm
DETROIT - A 16-year-old Wyandotte Roosevelt High School student walking along railroad tracks listening to his iPod this morning said he didn’t see or hear the train – until he was struck, according to police.
Wyandotte teen clipped by train, fractures skull (Lansing State Journal)
posted on November 5, 2009 at 07:07:37 pm
DETROIT - A 16-year-old Wyandotte Roosevelt High School student walking along railroad tracks listening to his iPod this morning said he didnt see or hear the train until he was struck, according to police. The Norfolk Southern train engineer told Wyandotte Police he was sounding the engines horn at 7:45 a.m., but the student did not look up until impact. The boy suffered a skull fracture when ...

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Theodore Roosevelt High School, also known as RHS or Roosevelt, or also Wyandotte High by alumni, is the secondary school in Wyandotte, Michigan. Established in 1923, RHS is the only public high school in the city of Wyandotte. Its mascot is the Bear, with athletic teams with similar names (the Bears for males and the Lady Bears for females). Enrollment as of the 2005-2006 school year is 1416 students attending grades 9-12. The mainstream curriculum is essentially university-preparatory, yet students do not have to enroll in all of these classes. Standard procedure for graduation is having obtained 22 of 24 possible credits, taking 4 terms of English and literature based classes, including Composition, 3 terms of Social Studies, including Economics and Geography, 3 terms of Science, and 3 terms of Mathematics. Students must also include 2 terms of the Arts or Vocational training, or a Foreign Language, 1 term of Physical Education, and a half-term (semester) of Keyboarding or Computer Informatics. The school offers juniors and seniors several Advanced Placement courses, and all juniors must take the MEAP exam in the second semester. Class Courses such as Mathematics were increased requirements to Algebra I, Geometry, and Algebra II is required by state. 3 years of Science is also required by state now, Earth Science, Biology and Chemistry.
Book controversy
The Wyandotte Board of Education in December 2008 removed the bestselling book “The Bookseller of Kabul” by Åsne Seierstad from the school library on the claims that it was pornography. The librarian as well as a number of teachers opposed the ban, saying that students shouldn’t be sheltered from learning the truth about what goes on in other parts of the world.

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