Riverview Elementary

Riverview Elementary is a reasonably sized elementary school in Lakeside, California, run under Lakeside Union Elementary. The school serves 469 students in grades 2 through 5.

Within Lakeside Union Elementary, which oversees 10 schools and 4,742 students, Riverview Elementary is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Riverview Elementary lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 39% White, 10% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 35% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Riverview Elementary has 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. An estimated 25% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against San Diego County (around 54%), the school's rate is south of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverview Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.5%, the actual is 58.9%, a residual of -5.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for San Diego County shows median household income runs about $106,268, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, San Diego County runs 766 public schools (combined enrollment of about 467,437 students), of which Riverview Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: River Valley Charter, around 0.6 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverview Elementary ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 34.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 24%: 615 students in 2018 compared to 469 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 61% to 39% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 25.6:1 in 2018 to 23.5:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.