RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

As a mid-tier K-5 school in PALM BAY, Florida, RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL instructs 718 students from grades pre-K through 6, operated by BREVARD.

BREVARD runs 109 schools in total, collectively educating 73,587 students. RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 32% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder comes out to 30% Hispanic, 24% Black, 10% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Brevard County as a whole is about 73% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.5:1, putting RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 59% 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 higher than Brevard County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.5%, the actual is 57.0%, a residual of +5.5 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Brevard County indicate median household earnings sit near $78,476, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Brevard County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 73,587 students), of which RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is LOCKMAR ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 1.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 49.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has rose 5%, going from 683 students in 2018 to 718 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 39% to 32% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 13.9:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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