Riverdale Elementary School

Riverdale Elementary School operates as a low-enrollment K-5 school in Saint Joe, Indiana, overseen by DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist. Current enrollment sits at 300 students spanning grades K through 6. By comparison, Indiana's public schools average about 436 students each, so Riverdale Elementary School sits 31% leaner than that benchmark.

Riverdale Elementary School is one of 4 schools operated by DeKalb Co Eastern Com Sch Dist, a district that caters to 1,244 students overall.

On demographics, Riverdale Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (92%); the rest breaks down as 4% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Riverdale Elementary School logs 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.8:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 15.5:1 average. Roughly 42% of students at Riverdale Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverdale Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 46.0%; this one delivers 51.0%.

Around the school, census data for DeKalb County shows median household earnings sit near $74,331, about 20% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across DeKalb County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,781 students), Riverdale Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Butler Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 7.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, Riverdale Elementary School comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 42.5%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Riverdale Elementary School's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 299 (now 300). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 97% to 92%.

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