Riverside School

Riverside School is a public mid-sized elementary school in Riverside, Connecticut. Total enrollment is 440 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 5.

Riverside School reports to Greenwich School District, which has 15 schools and 8,377 students.

White students are 71% of those enrolled at Riverside School. The next largest groups are 18% Hispanic, 5% Asian, and 5% multiracial. In Western Connecticut Planning Region overall, about 61% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 45, compared with 70 nationally.

Staffing at Riverside School comes to 37.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 11.8:1. Elementary schools in Connecticut have an average ratio of 12.6:1. On the income side, 2% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Western Connecticut Planning Region average 33%.

In Western Connecticut Planning Region, home to about 627,071 people, median household income comes to about $128,188, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 56%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Western Connecticut Planning Region's 149 public schools enroll about 90,520 students and include Riverside School.

Riverside School is about 0.2 miles from Eastern Middle School, its nearest public school. Riverside School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).

Riverside School had 445 students in 2020-21 and 440 in 2024-25, nearly the same.

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