Theodore Roosevelt Elementary in Cocoa Beach, Florida

Theodore Roosevelt Elementary sits at 1400 Minutemen Causeway, Cocoa Beach, FL 32931, and the federal school directory lists it for pre-kindergarten through grade 6 (NCES public school search, Cocoa Beach).

The school's own site gives the main office phone as 321-868-6660 and the fax as 321-735-9752, with the same Minutemen Causeway address (Roosevelt Elementary website). The National Center for Education Statistics directory shows 275 students for the 2024-2025 school year and the grade span PK-6 (NCES public school search, Cocoa Beach). NCES notes that its enrollment column comes from 2024-2025 data, while the address and phone lines are preliminary 2025-2026 directory entries, so the count trails the current year by one school year (NCES search notes).

Roosevelt is one of four public schools the NCES search returns for a Cocoa Beach address. The others are Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High School at 1500 Minutemen Causeway with 1,049 students in grades 7-12, Freedom 7 Elementary School of International Studies at 400 S 4th St with 408 students in grades KG-6, and Project Search at 701 W Cocoa Causeway with 19 students in grade 12 (NCES public school search, Cocoa Beach). Roosevelt and the junior/senior high are neighbors on Minutemen Causeway, at numbers 1400 and 1500 (NCES public school search, Cocoa Beach). Cocoa Beach Junior/Senior High has its own guide on Digital Towns.

The building has a longer story than its current name suggests. The City of Cocoa Beach timeline records that Roosevelt Middle School opened in 1967 and that it is now known as Roosevelt Elementary School (City of Cocoa Beach History at a Glance). The same timeline lists Cocoa Beach Elementary School, established in 1958, as the first school in the city (City of Cocoa Beach History at a Glance).

Roosevelt Elementary earned an A in the Florida Department of Education's 2025-26 school grades, with 581 points over 8 components, 73 percent of possible points and 99 percent of students tested (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

The state file, dated September 1, 2026, lists Roosevelt as school number 5012 in district 05, Brevard, school type 01, which the file's legend defines as elementary (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). The same file prints the elementary scale: an A is 62 percent of points or greater, a B 54 to 61 percent, a C 41 to 53 percent, a D 32 to 40 percent, and an F 31 percent of points or less (grading scale note in the FLDOE file).

The district column comes from the department's separate district file, which grades a whole district on the combination school scale, where an A starts at 65 percent of points (FLDOE 2025-26 district grades file). The Brevard row there shows 810 points over 12 components and 98 percent tested (FLDOE 2025-26 district grades file). The Roosevelt row leaves the social studies, acceleration and graduation columns blank, and the statute limits the middle school acceleration measure to schools made up of grades 6 through 8 or grades 7 and 8 (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file; Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

The FLDOE row for Theodore Roosevelt Elementary, the Minutemen Causeway school in Cocoa Beach, also carries three status columns: NO under Title I, NO under charter school, and 38.5 in the column for the percent of economically disadvantaged students (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

Florida's school accountability law builds an elementary grade such as Roosevelt's from pass rates on state tests in reading, math and science, the share of students making Learning Gains, and the gains of the students who started in the bottom quarter (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

Under that statute, the achievement components count the percentage of eligible students who pass the statewide, standardized assessments in English Language Arts, mathematics and science (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). The gains components follow students who make Learning Gains in each subject, and two more columns isolate eligible students in the lowest 25 percent in each subject, identified by their results on the prior year's tests (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). A separate component applies to any school whose grade levels include grade 3: the percentage of eligible students scoring achievement level 3 or higher on the grade 3 English Language Arts test (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). That is the 68 in the first row of the Roosevelt table (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

Subsection (3) of the statute sets the participation terms behind the tested column: a school is required to test 95 percent or more of the students eligible for the assessments, and a component for which the school lacks complete data on at least 10 students may not be used in calculating its grade (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). Roosevelt's 99 percent tested clears the participation floor (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

Subsection (2) attaches a phrase to every letter on the Roosevelt row: excellent progress for an A, above average progress for a B, satisfactory progress for a C, less than satisfactory progress for a D, and failure to make adequate progress for an F (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). That subsection lets an A school, or one that rises by two or more letters, take more control of allocating the budget it draws from FEFP, categorical, lottery, grant and local dollars (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes).

Nearly always: the FLDOE file records an A for Roosevelt in every graded year except 1999, 2001 and 2013, which show a B, and the 2021 column is empty (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

The workbook carries grade columns from 1999 through 2026 with no 2020 column, and it labels the 2015 and 2023 columns as informational baseline grades (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file). Roosevelt's row reads B for 1999, A for 2000, B for 2001, A from 2002 through 2012, B for 2013, and A for 2014 and every year after it that has a letter, including both baseline years (FLDOE 2025-26 school grades file).

Readers comparing letters across those years should know that the scale is not fixed. Under Section 1008.34, the State Board of Education must move the minimum share of points for an A, B, C and D upward for the following school year whenever schools graded A or B make up 75 percent or more of all graded schools of the same type, with the first such adjustment no earlier than 2023-2024 (Section 1008.34, Florida Statutes). An A in one year and an A in another can rest on different cutoffs, so the component scores in the table above are the better guide to how Roosevelt's students are doing now.

The school's long record also predates its elementary role: the city timeline says the campus opened as Roosevelt Middle School in 1967 (City of Cocoa Beach History at a Glance).

The school's website carries a Purple Star School of Distinction Designation page and a Military Family Resources page, but Roosevelt is not among the Brevard schools on the state's 2025-2028 Purple Star list (Roosevelt Elementary website; FLDOE Purple Star 2025-2028 list).

The Brevard County entries on the FLDOE list for 2025-2028 are Cocoa Beach Jr/Sr High School, Discovery Elementary School, Holland Elementary School, Lockmar Elementary School, Pinecrest Academy Space Coast and Quest Elementary School, plus the private Space Coast Discovery (FLDOE Purple Star 2025-2028 list). Roosevelt does not appear on that list, while its own site still lists the designation under About Us and a Purple Star item under Parents and Students (Roosevelt Elementary website). The state program page says a school keeps the designation for three school years once awarded (FLDOE Purple Star program page); the two official sources do not settle Roosevelt's current status, and a family relying on the designation can confirm its status with the school or with the department at PurpleStarSchools@fldoe.org (FLDOE Purple Star program page).

The program Roosevelt's site refers to rests on state law. Section 1003.051 defines a military student as the dependent of an active duty or former member of the Army, Navy, Air Force, Space Force, Marine Corps or Coast Guard, a reserve component, or the Florida National Guard (Section 1003.051, Florida Statutes). At a minimum, a participating school must name a staff military liaison, keep a web page of resources for military families, run a student-led transition program for new military students, offer staff training on military student issues, and set aside at least 5 percent of its controlled open enrollment seats for military students (Section 1003.051, Florida Statutes). The department adds that the designation is meant to recognize schools that meet military families' needs during moves (FLDOE Purple Star program page).

Roosevelt's site lists orchestra, choir, the Gecko Club, a running club, the Crossroads Kids Club, soccer and flag football clubs, the Destination Moon Club, science and art clubs, safety patrol and morning announcements (Roosevelt Elementary website).

Music has two programs, orchestra and choir, and each of the three sports listings, running, soccer and flag football, is named as a club (Roosevelt Elementary website). The list also carries a Destination Moon Club (Roosevelt Elementary website), in a city whose timeline records that many people watched the May 6, 1961 Freedom 7 launch from the Cocoa Beach beaches (City of Cocoa Beach History at a Glance). Safety patrol and morning announcements complete the list (Roosevelt Elementary website).

Parents find the PTO and the School Advisory Council under the Parents and Students menu, along with pages on attendance, the district dress code, bullying and harassment, supply lists and water safety (Roosevelt Elementary website). The Academics menu links at-home reading activities, K-2 Star scoring definitions, learning expectations and the science fair (Roosevelt Elementary website). Enrollment, transportation and the district's Focus portal are reached from the same site (Roosevelt Elementary website).

Last verified: October 21, 2026, by rereading Roosevelt's row and the elementary scale in the FLDOE grade workbook, the Brevard row in the district workbook, the NCES Cocoa Beach directory search, the Minutemen Causeway school site, the state Purple Star list and program page, Sections 1008.34 and 1003.051, and the city's history timeline.