Riverview Middle

Riverview Middle, a tiny middle school in Rio Vista, California, one of the schools within River Delta Joint Unified, serves 160 students, covering grades 7 through 8. That puts it 76% smaller than the typical public school in California, which averages around 659 students.

River Delta Joint Unified comprises 11 schools with combined enrollment of 1,705 students; Riverview Middle is among them.

Looking at the student body, Riverview Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest is composed of 34% White, 11% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Asian. By comparison, Solano County as a whole is about 30% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 9 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 17.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. Around 77% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Solano County runs at roughly 60%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Riverview Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 33.7%; this one delivers 28.0%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Solano County) shows that median household income runs about $100,401, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Riverview Middle is one of 110 public schools in Solano County (combined enrollment of about 60,765 students).

The closest other public school is River Delta High/Elementary (Alternative), roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Riverview Middle. On composite proficiency, Riverview Middle comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 27.9%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Riverview Middle's enrollment has edged down 31% since 2018, when it stood at 233 (now 160). Over the same period, the White share declined from 49% to 34%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 19.4:1 in 2018 to 17.9:1 today.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.