 In 1972 , many of the students from Kent State High School , which had closed earlier that year , were transferred to Roosevelt . Beginning in 1978 , ninth graders started attending the high school again for the first time since 1959 due to overcrowding at Davey Junior High School . In 1985 , Roosevelt was honored as one of 212 high schools in the United States to earn the Presidential Excellence in Education award from the U.S. Department of Education . Since 2004 , Roosevelt has consistently been rated " Excellent " by the Ohio Department of Education and in December 2009 , US News & World Report named Roosevelt in the 2010 " Best High Schools " issue as a Bronze Medal school . The school earned a " Bronze Medal " ranking and was one of only 46 high schools in the state of Ohio to be named in the report . Roosevelt was named as a Bronze Medal school again in 2015 and 2016 . 
