Theodore Roosevelt High School (Des Moines)

The construction of the building in which TRHS is housed was initiated in 1922 by Proudfoot, Bird, and Rawson and opened in 1924 with 1,282 students. The final cost to build was $1,331,600. The building's design has won many awards and is considered one of 50 most significant buildings in Iowa by PBS. The building is on both the State and National Register of Historic Places.

As of the 2008–2009 school year, there were 1,654 students[3] enrolled at Roosevelt High School.

Roosevelt High School

Students must be enrolled in physical education at least 1 semester each year while in high school and complete CPR certification. They are also required to, as before, take core academic courses in order to graduate and receive a diploma. These include Social Studies, English, Mathematics, Science, and Art, therefore leaving the two remaining blocks to be electives and/or release periods. Credits needed to graduate are currently 23, raised from 18 beginning with the graduating class of 2011.

All students are required by Des Moines Public Schools to enroll in four subject courses and a Physical Education course. The school district compels lower-class students to schedule a full day of classes, however, in order to ensure satisfaction with district graduation requirements. Juniors and Seniors have the option of having an "open period" during the first or last period of the school day (Seniors may have open periods during any period). Juniors require parental permission to have an open period.

WPA poster for a citywide forum lecture at Roosevelt High School by journalist Max Lerner (1940)

US Senator and Presidential candidate Bernie Sanders speaking at Roosevelt High School (January 2016)

Roosevelt competes as a school in the Iowa High School Athletic Association 4A school. It is a member of the Central Iowa Metro League conference, or CIML, along with all four of the other DMPS high schools and Ottumwa High School.

• Inez Asher, novelist and television writer
• Bill Bryson, best-selling author; inducted in school's Hall of Fame in 2001
• Randy Duncan, runner-up for Heisman Trophy, first pick of 1959 NFL Draft
• Harold Ely, NFL player
• Nate Green, MVP Missouri Valley Conference (2000), former Professional basketball player
• Feng Zhang (Class of 2000), Broad Institute and MIT neurobiologist, co-inventor of optogenetics, developer of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene editing method, winner of the Perl-UNC Neuroscience Prize
• John P. Hayes, artist
• David Anthony Higgins, actor and comedy writer
• Steve Higgins, announcer, The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon
• Lolo Jones (Class of 2000), Summer and Winter Olympian, track-and-field and bobsled athlete
• Natasha Kaiser-Brown, sprinter, Olympic silver medalist and relay world champion
• Cloris Leachman, Emmy and Academy Award-winning actress; 1987 Roosevelt Hall of Fame inductee
• Jane Skiles O'Dea, naval aviator, flight instructor and commander; TRHS Hall of Fame
• Robert D. Ray, Governor of Iowa 1969-83
• Paul Schell, architect, commissioner, Dean of University of Washington College of Architecture and Urban Planning, former mayor of Seattle, Washington (1998–2002)
• Ben Silbermann (Class of 1999), co-founder of Pinterest
• Olan Soule, 1928 graduate, character actor with hundreds of credits in films, radio, TV and commercials
• George W. Webber (1920–2010), President of New York Theological Seminary.[8]
• Everett Gendler, (Class of 1946) rabbi known as the "father of Jewish environmentalism"
• Bill Stewart (musician), jazz drummer

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