Riverton Elementary School

Riverton Elementary School, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in Huntsville, Alabama, run under Madison County, works with 596 students, covering grades pre-K through 3. That puts it 24% bigger than the typical public school in Alabama, which averages around 480 students.

Madison County comprises 28 schools with combined enrollment of 20,691 students; Riverton Elementary School is among them.

On demographics, Riverton Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 67% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 14% Black, 8% multiracial, 5% Hispanic, 5% Native American.

On the income-and-resources front, The school currently runs with 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.3:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 29% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Madison County runs at roughly 41%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Riverton Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.9%, the actual is 71.8%, a residual of +9.0 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $86,499 per year, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Madison County's 89 public schools (combined enrollment of about 55,800 students), Riverton Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Riverton Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverton Elementary School ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.0%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Five-year trend. Riverton Elementary School's enrollment has grew 22% since 2018, when it stood at 488 (now 596). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 18.3:1 today.

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