Riverside School

Riverside School is a 6-8 campus of middle-of-the-pack scale in NEW CASTLE, Colorado, one of the schools within Garfield School District No. Re-2, caters to 483 students in grades 6 through 8.

Within Garfield School District No. Re-2, which oversees 10 schools and 4,695 students, Riverside School is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Riverside School shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 47% White, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Garfield County as a whole is about 33% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.9:1, putting Riverside School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 41% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is lower than Garfield County's rate of about 50%.

After controlling for student poverty, Riverside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.0%, the actual is 31.1%, a residual of -10.9 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Garfield County put the typical household earns roughly $91,131 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Garfield County's 29 public schools (combined enrollment of about 10,790 students), Riverside School is one campus in the mix.

Kathryn Senor Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 3 other public schools cluster around Riverside School. On composite proficiency, Riverside School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 28.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Riverside School's enrollment has shrank 24% since 2018, when it stood at 637 (now 483). Class-load math has fell: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 in 2025.

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