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Best kept secret at Riverside Elementary School?
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Enrollment
471
Elementary
DISTRICT 691 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COBB COUNTY·NCES 130129003530
Riverside Elementary School
461 S Gordon Rd SW, Mableton, GA 30126 · (770) 819-5851 · Cobb County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL471 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.0:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
471 students
DISTRICT 56% · 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 | 10 | 2% |
| Kindergarten | 73 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 76 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 19% |
| Grade 3 | 79 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
52%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Based on published attendance-zone data from Cobb County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
16.1%
GA avg 40.1% . +4.5pp since 2021
Math
16.2%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.9pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 16 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 have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 16.1% | 16.2% |
| 2023-24 | 15.6% | 14.6% |
| 2022-23 | 9.7% | 15.5% |
| 2021-22 | 11.7% | 15.3% |
% 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
15.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.7%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 16% 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 Riverside Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School's state test result (15.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary School this school | 471 | 100.0% | 15.9% |
| Fountain Elementary School Forest Park | 437 | 100.0% | 27.0% |
| Cox Elementary School Moultrie | 466 | 100.0% | 20.7% |
| Huie Elementary School Forest Park | 594 | 100.0% | 13.2% |
| Edmonds Elementary School Forest Park | 426 | 100.0% | 19.6% |
| Russell Elementary School Smyrna | 568 | 94.9% | 29.2% |
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 Riverside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Cobb County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #1,130 of 1,208 | #72 of 72 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 16.2% | #1,135 of 1,215 ▼ 5 | #72 of 72 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 16.1% | #1,104 of 1,215 ▲ 19 | #72 of 72 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.7pp | #550 of 1,183 | #25 of 72 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 471 | #926 of 1,324 | #63 of 78 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.2:1 | #48 of 1,301 | #14 of 77 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.4% | #725 of 1,301 | #65 of 77 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 100% | #127 of 1,312 | #15 of 78 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -12.1% | #459 of 854 | #34 of 57 |
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
471
-44 (-9%) vs 2020
+3% since 2010-11, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
10.2:1
was 10.3:1
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 | 471 | 46.3 | 10.2:1 | 100% (471) |
| 2023-24 | 511 | 46.1 | 11.1:1 | 96% (492) |
| 2022-23 | 559 | 48.1 | 11.6:1 | 90% (503) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 50 | 10.3:1 | 87% (448) |
| 2017-18 | 536 | 50 | 10.7:1 | 93% (497) |
| 2015-16 | 660 | 53 | 12.4:1 | 95% (626) |
| 2010-11 | 457 | 38 | 12.0:1 | 93% (427) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 12% (536 to 471); teachers down 7% (50 to 46.3).
About Riverside Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School runs as a small elementary school in Mableton, Georgia. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 471 students. The average for elementary schools in Georgia is about 605 students, so this school is 22% smaller than average.
The 110 schools of Cobb County, including Riverside Elementary School, enroll 105,738 students.
At Riverside Elementary School, Hispanic students make up 53% of the student body. It is also 44% Black. For comparison, the population of Cobb County is roughly 15% Hispanic. Riverside Elementary School's diversity index is 52%, against a US figure of 70%.
The teaching staff at Riverside Elementary School is 46.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the ratio is 10.2:1. The school has fewer students per teacher than the 13.3:1 average for elementary schools in Georgia. About 100% of students, or 471, qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. For comparison, public schools in Cobb County average 53%.
The model predicts 25.7% for a school in Georgia with Riverside Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Riverside Elementary School posts 15.9%.
Cobb County census figures show that the median household income is $102,738, roughly 51% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. There are 129 public schools in Cobb County, enrolling about 116,609 students in all.
Of nearby public schools, City View Elementary School is the closest, at about 0.4 miles. Riverside Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools with test data average 27.5% proficiency; Riverside Elementary School posts 15.9%.
NCES assigns Riverside Elementary School the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Enrollment at Riverside Elementary School declined 9% between 2020-21 and 2024-25, from 515 to 471 students.
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Cobb County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
775,208
Census ACS
Median income
$102,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
51%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
129
116,609 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Cobb County
- Campbell High SchoolHigh · 3,085 students
- Osborne High SchoolHigh · 2,790 students
- Walton High SchoolHigh · 2,705 students
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- North Cobb High SchoolHigh · 2,463 students
- Wheeler High SchoolHigh · 2,401 students
Other schools in Mableton
- Pebblebrook High SchoolHigh · 2,574 students
- Clay-Harmony Leland Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,013 students
- Mableton Elementary SchoolElementary · 945 students
- Lindley Middle SchoolMiddle · 905 students
- City View Elementary SchoolElementary · 870 students
- Bryant Elementary SchoolElementary · 865 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 44.
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolEvans, GA · 640 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
Nearby schools
- City View Elementary School0.4 mi · 870
- Bryant Elementary School0.6 mi · 865
- Clay-Harmony Leland Elementary School0.7 mi · 1,013
- Pebblebrook High School1.5 mi · 2,574
- Lindley Middle School1.9 mi · 905
- Mableton Elementary School2.7 mi · 945
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School enrolls approximately 471 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Riverside Elementary School serve?
Riverside Elementary School serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Riverside Elementary School have?
Riverside Elementary School employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.2:1.
What is the student diversity at Riverside Elementary School?
Student demographics at Riverside Elementary School are roughly 1% White, 53% Hispanic, 44% Black, 0% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is Riverside Elementary School public or private?
Riverside Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Cobb County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.