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How has Riverside Elementary School changed in the last five years, for better or worse?
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Enrollment
919
Elementary
DISTRICT 956 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GWINNETT COUNTY·NCES 130255002325
Riverside Elementary School
5445 Settles Bridge Rd, Suwanee, GA 30024 · (678) 482-1000 · Gwinnett County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL919 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
63 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
208 students
DISTRICT 63% · 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 | 11 | 1% |
| Kindergarten | 102 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 131 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 151 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 159 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 201 | 22% |
| Grade 5 | 164 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (102) is 38% smaller than its 5th grade class (164).
Student demographics
69%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 Gwinnett County. Zones change; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
78.8%
GA avg 40.1% . -2.1pp since 2021
Math
85.3%
GA avg 44.6% . -0.8pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 79 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 78.8% | 85.3% |
| 2023-24 | 77.3% | 83.8% |
| 2022-23 | 75.8% | 83.7% |
| 2021-22 | 80.9% | 86.2% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of GA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
82.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.6%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+16.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 66% typical for Georgia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 17 points, placing it in Georgia's top 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 (82.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary School this school | 919 | 22.6% | 82.3% |
| Mashburn Elementary School Cumming | 976 | 23.2% | 65.4% |
| Roberts Elementary School Suwanee | 946 | 27.1% | 79.8% |
| Midway Elementary School Alpharetta | 1,022 | 15.8% | 71.5% |
| Brookwood Elementary Cumming | 810 | 13.8% | 75.7% |
| Ocee Elementary School Alpharetta | 694 | 17.4% | 72.4% |
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 Gwinnett County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 82.3% | #17 of 1,208 | #2 of 84 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 85.3% | #17 of 1,215 ▲ 7 | #2 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 78.8% | #18 of 1,215 ▲ 16 | #2 of 84 ▲ 1 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -1.5pp | #316 of 1,183 | #36 of 83 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 919 | #122 of 1,324 | #42 of 88 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.5:1 | #978 of 1,301 | #78 of 87 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 68.7% | #165 of 1,301 | #40 of 87 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 22.6% | #1,212 of 1,312 | #84 of 88 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.4% | #592 of 854 | #29 of 53 |
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
919
0 (0%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 1,367
Student : Teacher
14.5:1
was 15.3:1
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 | 919 | 63.3 | 14.5:1 | 23% (208) |
| 2023-24 | 963 | 66.8 | 14.4:1 | 23% (224) |
| 2022-23 | 967 | 67.6 | 14.3:1 | 12% (113) |
| 2020-21 | 919 | 60 | 15.3:1 | 13% (123) |
| 2017-18 | 1,003 | 65.9 | 15.2:1 | 8% (78) |
| 2015-16 | 1,019 | 68 | 15.0:1 | 8% (77) |
| 2010-11 | 1,169 | 75 | 15.6:1 | 9% (101) |
| 2000-01 | 1,367 | 82 | 16.7:1 | 3% (36) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (1,003 to 919); teachers down 4% (65.9 to 63.3).
About Riverside Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School is classified as an elementary school. It is located in Suwanee, Georgia. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 919 students. Elementary schools in Georgia have about 605 students on average; enrollment here is 52% higher.
Riverside Elementary School is a school in Gwinnett County. The district has 141 schools and 182,518 students.
Of every 100 students at Riverside Elementary School, about 43 are Asian, the largest group. After that, the student body is 33% White, 10% Black, 8% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. Census figures show Gwinnett County is about 13% Asian. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 69, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at Riverside Elementary School, there are about 14.5 students; the school has 63.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in Georgia, the average ratio is 13.3:1. The share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 23%. The gap from the 60% average for public schools in Gwinnett County is 37 points.
On BeatsExpectations, which compares test results with what a school's student poverty level would predict, Riverside Elementary School ranks in the top 10% in Georgia. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 82.3%, against a prediction of 65.6%.
Gwinnett County is the school's county. There, median household income comes to about $87,890, roughly 39% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 9%. Public schools in Gwinnett County number 150, with about 196,924 students.
North Gwinnett High School is about 1.6 miles from Riverside Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Riverside Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
Riverside Elementary School is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels Suburb: Large.
Enrollment went from 919 in 2020-21 to 919 in 2024-25, a change of zero students.
This page is set up for the Riverside Elementary School community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Gwinnett County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
979,864
Census ACS
Median income
$87,890
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
150
196,924 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Gwinnett County
- Brookwood High SchoolHigh · 3,803 students
- Grayson High SchoolHigh · 3,627 students
- Parkview High SchoolHigh · 3,216 students
- Peachtree Ridge High SchoolHigh · 3,155 students
- Archer High SchoolHigh · 3,058 students
- North Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 3,033 students
Other schools in Suwanee
- Lambert High SchoolHigh · 3,249 students
- Peachtree Ridge High SchoolHigh · 3,155 students
- North Gwinnett High SchoolHigh · 3,033 students
- Collins Hill High SchoolHigh · 2,485 students
- Riverwatch Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,455 students
- Level Creek Elementary SchoolElementary · 1,051 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary School is the 2nd largest of the 44.
- Riverside Elementary SchoolEvans, GA · 640 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolMableton, GA · 471 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
Nearby schools
- North Gwinnett High School1.6 mi · 3,033
- Settles Bridge Elementary School2.1 mi · 741
- Level Creek Elementary School2.2 mi · 1,051
- Riverwatch Middle School2.2 mi · 1,455
- North Gwinnett Middle School2.3 mi · 2,360
- Sharon Elementary School2.3 mi · 865
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside Elementary SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School enrolls approximately 919 students in grades PK-05.
Is Riverside Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Riverside Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School?
Approximately 14.5:1 students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School.
How diverse is Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School reports a student body of 33% White, 8% Hispanic, 10% Black, 43% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is Riverside Elementary School in?
Riverside Elementary School is part of Gwinnett County.
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