Riverchase Elementary School

Riverchase Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-tier scale in Hoover, Alabama, run under Hoover City, hosting 562 students in grades K through 5.

Riverchase Elementary School is one of 16 schools operated by Hoover City, a district that serves 13,632 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Riverchase Elementary School lists that 46% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 25% Black, 12% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 76% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.0:1 average. About 39% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Riverchase Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.4%; this one delivers 66.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Shelby County) logs that median household earnings sit near $97,961, 47% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Shelby County's 48 public schools (combined enrollment of about 35,120 students), Riverchase Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Hoover High School, around 1.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Riverchase Elementary School comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 36.8%.

Riverchase Elementary School operates from an outer-ring location.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverchase Elementary School has fell 19%, going from 697 students in 2018 to 562 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 60% to 46% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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