RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY operates as a medium-sized elementary school in ORLANDO, Florida, overseen by ORANGE. Current enrollment sits at 526 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

ORANGE comprises 272 schools with combined enrollment of 207,778 students; RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY is among them.

On demographics, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY shows that the largest single group is Black at 54%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 28% Hispanic, 13% White, 4% multiracial. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 20%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 17.5:1 average. Roughly 69% of students at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Orange County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.5%, the actual is 41.4%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Orange County indicate median household income runs about $79,719, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Orange County's 286 public schools (combined enrollment of about 216,813 students), RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is LOCKHART MIDDLE, roughly 0.8 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY ranks 6th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 49.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 586 (now 526). Over the same period, the Black share rose from 42% to 54%.

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