Riverside Meadows Intermediate

Riverside Meadows Intermediate is one of the compact junior highs in Plumas Lake, California, run under Plumas Lake Elementary, with 528 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8.

Across the 3 schools in Plumas Lake Elementary (1,682 students total), Riverside Meadows Intermediate accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Demographically, Riverside Meadows Intermediate logs that 38% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Beyond that, the school lists 33% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 11% multiracial, 5% Black. The wider county runs roughly 54% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.9:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 20.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 44% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Yuba County (around 68%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Riverside Meadows Intermediate sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 53.3%; actual is 37.7%, a gap of -15.7 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Yuba County indicate median household earnings sit near $76,373, 18% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Yuba County runs 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 16,045 students), of which Riverside Meadows Intermediate is one.

Nearest neighbor: Cobblestone Elementary, around 0.7 miles off. Within five miles, there are 4 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Meadows Intermediate ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.3%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Meadows Intermediate has rose 28%, going from 412 students in 2018 to 528 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 50% to 38% across the same window.

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