Yearbook
Roosevelt High School Yearbook
Yearbook Distribution
Yearbooks will be distributed at the end of the school year on Moving Up Day.
Portraits:
- September 10th – Portraits for grades 9-11 and 12 (ID picture ONLY)
- September 17th – Make-up Portraits for grades 9-11 and 12 (ID picture ONLY)
- October 22 – Retake and last chance make up portraits for grades 9-11 and 12 (ID picture ONLY)
- October 29 – Senior Portraits
- November 17 – Senior portrait retake and make up day*
Senior Grad Ads
More information is coming soon!
Questions: Email Roosevelths.yearbook@seattleschools.org
Free Grad Ads for Seniors!
Families with a senior on Free and Reduced Lunch (FRL) may request a free grad ad.
You may request this by notifying your counselor or emailing Roosevelths.yearbook@seattleschools.org
Purchase a Yearbook
Purchase a Yearbook
Yearbook sales dates are established in accordance with state tax policies.
- September 1 – 22, 2026 – Yearbook and ASB card Combo Sale ($65 Yearbook + $80 ASB card = $145)
- November 17 – December 8, 2026 – Holiday Yearbook Sale ($70)
- February 2 -23, 2027 – ($75) – Black History Month Sale ($75)
Please note: On and after September 22, the Yearbook and ASB card/activity fee prices increase. (The ASB card is $100.)
Each item can be bought separately on or after September 22. Yearbook sales will resume when yearbook distribution day/Moving Up Day and will continue until books are sold out.
SchoolPay Tips to See if You Pre-Purchased a Yearbook!
- Log in to the Parent Source/SchoolPay
- Verify you are on the correct student Account
- If the Yearbook option is not displayed on SchoolPay check the payment history to see if already purchased
- Open the History menu in the upper right portion of your screen
- Select items Purchased. SchoolPay will provide a search menu
- Select the date range and student, and click the Search button
Student Name Change
Has your student transitioned recently? Do they want to go by a different name?
If you would like the Roosevelt Yearbook to use a name that is different from the one Seattle Public Schools has on Record email Roosevelths.yearbook@seattleschools.org from your school email address before November 30
Join Yearbook Journalism Class
The Yearbook Journalism Class is open to any student by application during their freshman, sophomore, or junior year. The class gives students either one credit of English elective or Career and Technical Education (CTE). Students can take the course in their sophomore, junior, and/or senior years. Be sure to talk with your counselor about your path to graduation.
Is Yearbook the right class for you? Consider applying if you are outgoing, self-motivated, and hard-working AND you would like to:
- grow as a leader in our community,
- be a team player,
- be creative,
- develop many valuable work and life skills,
- learn about and help run the yearbook business,
- learn about and practice photography and graphic design, and
- create a yearbook that is truly inclusive
Alumni: Purchase prior year Strenuous Life yearbooks
Help support the yearbook program with a donation for a vintage yearbook and revisit your Roughrider days.
Purchase previous editions of the yearbook on SchoolPay
Then email Roosevelths.yearbook@seattleschools.org with your receipt and let us know which year’s yearbook you would like.
You may pick up the yearbook from the main office.”
This service is only available during the school year, September through June. We have copies of the Strenuous Life for many, but not all of the years from 1923 through 2026.
Why is our yearbook called Strenuous Life?
Well, our namesake-Teddy Roosevelt-in April 1899 said, “I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life, the life of toil and effort, of labor and strife; to preach that highest form of success which comes, not to the man who desires mere easy peace, but to the man who does not shrink from danger, from hardship, or from bitter toil, and who out of these wins the splendid ultimate triumph.”