Rivera Elementary

Rivera Elementary is an elementary-level community of mid-tier scale in TUCSON, Arizona, run under Sunnyside Unified District (4407), teacheing 454 students in grades K through 6.

Within Sunnyside Unified District (4407), which oversees 21 schools and 13,979 students, Rivera Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Rivera Elementary reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (94%). Other groups include 2% Native American. By comparison, Pima County as a whole is about 36% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Rivera Elementary shows 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 17.0:1 average.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Pima County put median household earnings sit near $70,315, about 37% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, Pima County runs 398 public schools (combined enrollment of about 140,692 students), of which Rivera Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Alta Vista High School, around 0.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Rivera Elementary.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Rivera Elementary's enrollment has shrank 17% since 2018, when it stood at 546 (now 454).

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.