River Valley Middle School

River Valley Middle School is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in Jeffersonville, Indiana, operated by Greater Clark County Schools, with 857 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 594 students each, so River Valley Middle School sits 44% bigger than that benchmark.

Greater Clark County Schools runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 10,643 students. River Valley Middle School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, River Valley Middle School shows that the largest single group is White at 38%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 19% Black, 12% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 82% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 60 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.3:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 65% of students at River Valley Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is north of Clark County's rate of about 50%.

With demographic context factored in, River Valley Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 29.9%, the actual is 31.2%, a residual of +1.3 points.

Across the wider county, Clark County reports that the typical household earns roughly $74,214 per year, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Clark County's 33 public schools (combined enrollment of about 23,765 students), River Valley Middle School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is W E Wilson Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, River Valley Middle School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at River Valley Middle School has decreased 11%, going from 959 students in 2018 to 857 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 50% to 38% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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