From 2004 to 2006, the building was seismically retrofitted, modernized, and expanded while many of the school's original architectural elements were preserved.
[citation needed] Each year Roosevelt holds its "Dramafest" (a series of twelve student-produced plays), a winter production, and a spring musical.
[citation needed] In the Hands for a Bridge program, students choose to travel either to South Africa or Northern Ireland, where they help foster dialogue about diversity, prejudice, and social change.
This group was created in 2001 by teachers Tom Nolet, Francene Watson, and Danny Rock with assistance from the University of Washington's Comparative History of Ideas Program and the Jackson School of International Studies.
Each student accepted to this program is enrolled in the HFB class, where an intensive year-long study of literature, history, and the arts focuses on cultures in conflict.
[6] The Northern Ireland travelers visit Oakgrove Integrated College in Derry which is led by John Harkin, while the South African travelers visit Isilimela Comprehensive School and Bellville High School (Hoërskool Bellville) near Cape Town.
The team attended the 2016 FIRST Championship in St. Louis and won a District Innovation in Control Award for their image recognition and targeting system.
The Iron Riders were also on the winning alliance at the 8th Annual Washington Girls Generation FIRST Robotics Competition in 2019.
Known as "The Pride of Seattle," this group of students also travels to and performs in multiple parades in the Northwest region each year.
[citation needed] The girls' basketball team has won one state championship,[15] and had a wide-release theatrical movie, The Heart of the Game, based on their experiences.
In 2016, the boys' golf team capped off an undefeated season with a metro, district, and state championship.
The Rough Riders football team lays claim to one state championship, as crowned by the Associated Press in 1950.
The Roosevelt News is a National Pacemaker Award-winning paper[25] produced monthly by students and overseen by a staff advisor.