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Enrollment
1,032
Elementary
DISTRICT 670 · STATE 604
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OKALOOSA·NCES 120138001337
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
3400 E REDSTONE AVE, CRESTVIEW, FL 32539 · (850) 689-7203 · Okaloosa County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL1,032 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 67% of Florida public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
57 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.6:1 · STATE 17.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
649 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 11 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 178 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 165 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 163 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 193 | 19% |
| Grade 4 | 142 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 180 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (178) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (180).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 70% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
56.8%
FL avg 56.7% . -0.4pp since 2023
Math
62.2%
FL avg 58.9% . -2.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 57 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 56.8% | 62.2% |
| 2023-24 | 57.2% | 65.1% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
59.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.6%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+9.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 50% typical for Florida schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Florida's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (59.3% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 1,032 | 62.9% | 59.3% |
| SUWANNEE RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY LIVE OAK | 901 | 63.5% | 52.6% |
| WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CRESTVIEW | 875 | 61.6% | 64.2% |
| LAKESIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ORANGE PARK | 726 | 62.1% | 53.6% |
| MAPLEWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCALA | 819 | 57.4% | 56.9% |
| ATWATER ELEMENTARY NORTH PORT | 892 | 61.8% | 64.3% |
Matched among Florida elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Okaloosa County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #903 of 2,136 | #12 of 20 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 62.2% | #1,000 of 2,149 ▼ 260 | #11 of 20 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 56.8% | #988 of 2,149 ▼ 146 | #12 of 20 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,032 | #180 of 2,267 | #1 of 21 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.1:1 | #1,712 of 2,077 | #20 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.3% | #402 of 2,108 | #7 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.9% | #798 of 2,188 | #10 of 21 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +23.9% | #155 of 621 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
1,032
+109 (+12%) vs 2020
+63% since 1990-91, when it was 632
Student : Teacher
18.1:1
was 18.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 1,032 | 57 | 18.1:1 | 63% (649) |
| 2023-24 | 991 | 57 | 17.4:1 | 57% (565) |
| 2022-23 | 947 | 57 | 16.6:1 | 58% (549) |
| 2020-21 | 923 | 50 | 18.5:1 | 60% (555) |
| 2017-18 | 833 | 54 | 15.4:1 | 61% (505) |
| 2015-16 | 855 | 56 | 15.3:1 | 61% (522) |
| 2010-11 | 618 | 43 | 14.4:1 | 59% (365) |
| 2000-01 | 482 | 31 | 15.6:1 | 65% (312) |
| 1990-91 | 632 | 36 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a large elementary school in CRESTVIEW, Florida, (ZIP code 32539). Enrollment stands at 1,032 students, covering pre-K through 5. It has 71% more students than the average for elementary schools in Florida (about 604).
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is run by OKALOOSA, whose 49 schools enroll 32,120 students.
White students account for 50% of enrollment at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, more than any other group. Other students are 20% Black, 15% Hispanic, and 14% multiracial. By comparison, Okaloosa County residents are about 72% White. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 67%.
On staff are 57 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.1:1. The average for elementary schools in Florida is about 17.5:1. About 63% of students at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Okaloosa County average 50%.
On the allk12 Grade, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lands at B+, ahead of 67% of Florida public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the middle 80% of Florida schools: 59.3% actual against 49.6% predicted.
In Okaloosa County, the median household earns about $81,998 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Okaloosa County has 51 public schools with about 32,120 students, including RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.1 miles. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools.
Locale data from NCES put RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in a town some distance from an urbanized area (Town: Distant).
In 2020-21, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolled 923 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 1,032.
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Okaloosa County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
216,599
Census ACS
Median income
$81,998
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
32,120 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OKALOOSA
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- NICEVILLE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,036 students
- CHOCTAWHATCHEE SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,720 students
- FORT WALTON BEACH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,550 students
- BAKER SCHOOLCombined · 1,434 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
Other schools in CRESTVIEW
- CRESTVIEW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,376 students
- DAVIDSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 1,111 students
- ANTIOCH ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 931 students
- SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 923 students
- WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 875 students
- NORTHWOOD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 814 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the largest of the 44.
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCORAL SPRINGS, FL · 679 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 526 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
Nearby schools
- SHOAL RIVER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.1 mi · 923
- SOUTHSIDE PRIMARY SCHOOL2.0 mi · 260
- OKALOOSA ONLINE NON FRANCHISED2.3 mi · 581
- WALKER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.5 mi · 875
- OKALOOSA YOUTH ACADEMY2.6 mi · 39
- CRESTVIEW YOUTH ACADEMY (NON SECURE)2.6 mi · 23
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 1,032 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 18.1:1 (57 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL are roughly 50% White, 15% Hispanic, 20% Black, 1% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Is RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL public or private?
RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OKALOOSA.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.