Riverside Middle School

Riverside Middle School is an intermediate school of moderately sized scale in Evans, Georgia, operated by Columbia County, enrolling 711 students in grades 6 through 8.

Riverside Middle School is one of 31 schools operated by Columbia County, a district that caters to 28,964 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Riverside Middle School records that 63% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder consists of 12% Black, 12% Hispanic, 7% multiracial, 5% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with Columbia County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Riverside Middle School has 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.8:1. The state averages around 14.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 22% of students at Riverside Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably below Columbia County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverside Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 65.9%, the actual is 60.7%, a residual of -5.2 points.

Across the wider county, Columbia County reports that the typical household earns roughly $95,592 per year, 39% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Columbia County's 32 public schools (combined enrollment of about 29,518 students), Riverside Middle School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: River Ridge Elementary, around 0.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverside Middle School. On composite proficiency, Riverside Middle School comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

The school occupies a small-town site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Middle School has held roughly steady, going from 707 students in 2018 to 711 in 2025. The White share of enrollment edged down from 71% to 63% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.2:1 in 2018 to 15.8:1 today.

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