Riviera Elementary

Riviera Elementary is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in Kelseyville, California, one of the schools within Kelseyville Unified, serveing 287 students in grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 38% below the state mean of about 465.

Across the 7 schools in Kelseyville Unified (1,818 students total), Riviera Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Riviera Elementary records that the most-represented group is White (55%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest reads as 28% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Lake County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Riviera Elementary has 13 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 22.1:1. The state averages about 22.3:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 66% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

After controlling for student poverty, Riviera Elementary falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 40.3%; this one comes in at 18.1%, -22.2 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, census data for Lake County shows median household income runs about $60,621, roughly 18% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Lake County's 43 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,167 students), Riviera Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Pomo, around 3.7 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Riviera Elementary. On composite proficiency, Riviera Elementary comes 2nd of 6 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 13.6%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 15%: 249 students in 2018 compared to 287 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share climbed from 22% to 28%. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 20.8:1 in 2018 to 22.1:1 today.

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