RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL

RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL operates as a well-populated four-year high school in JACKSONVILLE, Florida, one of the schools within DUVAL. Current enrollment sits at 1,638 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 58% bigger than the typical public school in Florida, which averages around 1,035 students.

DUVAL runs 206 schools in total, collectively educating 131,562 students. RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL shows that 68% of the student body identifies as Black. Other groups include 14% White, 12% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 29%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL has 68 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 52% of students at RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 55.2%; this one delivers 44.1%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Duval County indicate the typical household earns roughly $71,277 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Across Duval County's 220 public schools (combined enrollment of about 141,209 students), RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is WEST RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.5 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 55.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a high-density area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL has ticked down 14%, going from 1,912 students in 2018 to 1,638 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 7% to 12% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 22.8:1 in 2018 to 24.1:1 today.

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