Riverdale Elementary

Set in Riverdale, California, Riverdale Elementary is a low-enrollment middle-grades school, operated by Riverdale Joint Unified. It enrolls 507 students across grades 4 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 23% smaller than the state mean of about 659.

Riverdale Joint Unified runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,426 students. Riverdale Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Riverdale Elementary records that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). The remainder breaks down as 9% White. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 55%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school currently runs with 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.8:1. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Fresno County runs at roughly 75%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverdale Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 31.7%, a residual of +6.1 points.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Fresno County put median household earnings sit near $74,201, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 14% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Riverdale Elementary is one of 368 public schools in Fresno County (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students).

Riverdale High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverdale Elementary comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a countryside area.

Five-year trend. Riverdale Elementary's enrollment has ticked down 14% since 2018, when it stood at 588 (now 507). Class-load math has fell: from 22.0:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Riverdale Elementary typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.