RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL

RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL, a big senior high in SARASOTA, Florida, operated by SARASOTA, educates 2,637 students, covering grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Florida's public schools average about 1,035 students each, so RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL sits 155% above that benchmark.

SARASOTA runs 60 schools in total, collectively educating 45,246 students. RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 26% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Sarasota County as a whole is about 82% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL lists 134 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 23.5:1 average. About 30% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Sarasota County's rate of about 44%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 66.0%, the actual is 60.8%, a residual of -5.2 points.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Sarasota County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $83,416 per year, about 41% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Sarasota County runs 63 public schools (combined enrollment of about 45,253 students), of which RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL is one.

PHILLIPPI SHORES ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.4%.

RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL operates from an outer-ring location.

Looking at the recent track record. RIVERVIEW HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 2,598 (now 2,637). Hispanic enrollment moved from 18% to 26% across the same window.

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