Riverview Elementary

Riverview Elementary, a sprawling primary school in Fresno, California, overseen by Clovis Unified, instructs 700 students, covering grades K through 6. Enrollment runs roughly 51% above the state mean of about 465.

Across the 51 schools in Clovis Unified (43,611 students total), Riverview Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Riverview Elementary logs that the largest single group is White at 37%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 33% Hispanic, 20% Asian, 7% multiracial, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Fresno County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 22.8:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 35% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Fresno County (around 75%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverview Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 58.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 71.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Fresno County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $74,201 per year, roughly 24% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 14%. In all, Fresno County runs 368 public schools (combined enrollment of about 206,072 students), of which Riverview Elementary is one.

Copper Hills Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverview Elementary. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverview Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 74.5%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 7%: 749 students in 2018 compared to 700 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 52% to 37% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 28.8:1 in 2018 to 22.8:1 in 2025.

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