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Enrollment
559
Elementary
DISTRICT 584 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CLAYTON COUNTY·NCES 130123000499
Riverdale Elementary School
6253 Garden Walk Blvd, Riverdale, GA 30274 · (770) 994-4015 · Clayton County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL559 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 22% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- BThree-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
43 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
559 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 74%
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 | 24 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 92 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 89 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (89).
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 71% · 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
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
17.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +3.5pp since 2021
Math
19.1%
GA avg 44.6% . +5.2pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 17 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 19 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are up about 4 points since 2021, while math scores are up about 5 points.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 17.1% | 19.1% |
| 2023-24 | 21.6% | 20.1% |
| 2022-23 | 16.3% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 13.6% | 13.9% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. 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
21.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 22% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% typical for Georgia 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 Georgia'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 Riverdale Elementary School
Riverdale Elementary School's state test result (21.7% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverdale Elementary School this school | 559 | 100.0% | 21.7% |
| Swint Elementary School Jonesboro | 544 | 100.0% | 24.2% |
| Mount Zion Elementary School Jonesboro | 491 | 100.0% | 20.0% |
| Tara Elementary School Morrow | 570 | 100.0% | 19.8% |
| Stone Mill Elementary School Stone Mountain | 601 | 100.0% | 15.6% |
| Goodyear Elementary School Brunswick | 515 | 100.0% | 21.9% |
Matched among Georgia 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 Riverdale Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Clayton County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 21.7% | #1,000 of 1,208 | #19 of 37 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.1% | #1,080 of 1,215 ▼ 43 | #27 of 37 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 17.1% | #1,080 of 1,215 ▼ 60 | #27 of 37 ▼ 3 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +4.3pp | #430 of 1,183 | #24 of 36 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 559 | #704 of 1,324 | #23 of 41 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #525 of 1,301 | #9 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.8% | #769 of 1,301 | #12 of 40 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #95 of 1,312 | #20 of 41 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.2% | #107 of 854 | #9 of 34 |
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
559
-103 (-16%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 740
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 14.1:1
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 | 559 | 43 | 13.0:1 | 100% (559) |
| 2023-24 | 572 | 46 | 12.4:1 | 100% (572) |
| 2022-23 | 635 | 48 | 13.2:1 | 90% (574) |
| 2020-21 | 662 | 47 | 14.1:1 | 93% (616) |
| 2017-18 | 779 | 50 | 15.6:1 | 99% (775) |
| 2015-16 | 684 | 37 | 18.5:1 | 100% (681) |
| 2010-11 | 665 | 46 | 14.5:1 | 89% (593) |
| 2000-01 | 764 | 44 | 17.4:1 | 76% (583) |
| 1990-91 | 740 | 41 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverdale Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 28% (779 to 559); teachers down 14% (50 to 43).
About Riverdale Elementary School
Riverdale Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Clayton County, located in Riverdale, Georgia. The school's enrollment of 559 students covers pre-K through 5.
Clayton County has 51,326 students in 68 schools, and Riverdale Elementary School is one of those schools.
A majority of students at Riverdale Elementary School, 63%, are Black. Next come 31% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Riverdale Elementary School has a diversity index of 51%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 43 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 13.0:1. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 13.3:1, a similar figure. Roughly 100% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch.
The allk12 Grade for Riverdale Elementary School is C-. Compared with Georgia public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 22% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Riverdale Elementary School scores 21.7% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 25.7%.
Among Clayton County residents, median household income is about $59,806, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 73 public schools in Clayton County, with a combined enrollment of about 63,156.
Charles R. Drew High School is the closest public school, about 0.2 miles away in a straight line. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Riverdale Elementary School places 2nd of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, Riverdale Elementary School went from 662 students to 559. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 14.1:1 to 13.0:1.
Topics for discussion here include school safety, transportation, and start times. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
Clayton County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
298,924
Census ACS
Median income
$59,806
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
23%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
73
63,156 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Clayton County
- Morrow High SchoolHigh · 2,077 students
- Lovejoy High SchoolHigh · 2,049 students
- Forest Park High SchoolHigh · 1,711 students
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Mundy's Mill High SchoolHigh · 1,665 students
- Jonesboro High SchoolHigh · 1,630 students
Other schools in Riverdale
- Charles R. Drew High SchoolHigh · 1,708 students
- Riverdale High SchoolHigh · 1,359 students
- Dubois Integrity AcademyElementary · 1,341 students
- Sequoyah Middle SchoolMiddle · 765 students
- Church Street Elementary SchoolElementary · 706 students
- Harper Elementary SchoolElementary · 690 students
Other Riverdale Elementary schools
12 other US public schools in 11 states are named Riverdale Elementary. Riverdale Elementary School is the 4th largest of the 13.
- Riverdale Elementary SchoolGermantown, TN · 1,184 students
- Riverdale ElementaryRiverdale, MD · 586 students
- RIVERDALE ELEMENTARYORLANDO, FL · 566 students
- Riverdale ElementaryCourtland, VA · 533 students
- Riverdale Elementary SchoolPort Byron, IL · 517 students
Nearby schools
- Charles R. Drew High School0.2 mi · 1,708
- Harper Elementary School1.4 mi · 690
- Sequoyah Middle School1.5 mi · 765
- Martin Luther King- Jr. Elementary School1.5 mi · 516
- Dubois Integrity Academy1.5 mi · 1,341
- Riverdale Middle School1.7 mi · 560
Frequently asked questions
About Riverdale Elementary SchoolHow large is Riverdale Elementary School?
Riverdale Elementary School enrolls approximately 559 students in grades PK-05.
Is Riverdale Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Riverdale Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Riverdale Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Riverdale Elementary School is approximately 13.0:1 (43 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Riverdale Elementary School?
Riverdale Elementary School reports a student body of 1% White, 31% Hispanic, 63% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Who oversees Riverdale Elementary School?
Riverdale Elementary School is overseen by Clayton County in Clayton County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.