RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, an average-sized K-5 school in MERIDIAN, Idaho, run under JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2, instructs 468 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 41% bigger than the state mean of about 332.

JOINT SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2 runs 61 schools in total, collectively educating 38,740 students. RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On demographics, RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 32% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 83%.

On the resource side, On paper, RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.9:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 18.1:1, putting RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 54% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Ada County runs at roughly 34%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

In the surrounding community, census data for Ada County shows median household earnings sit near $91,502, roughly 45% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Ada County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 80,006 students), RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: USTICK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVER VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has fell 4%, going from 488 students in 2018 to 468 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share fell from 74% to 56%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 14.9:1 today.

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