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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the Riverside Elementary School administration to hear?
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Enrollment
568
Elementary
DISTRICT 506 · STATE 436
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREATER CLARK COUNTY SCHOOLS·NCES 180394000677
Riverside Elementary School
17 Laurel Dr, Jeffersonville, IN 47130 · (812) 288-4868 · Clark County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL568 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Indiana public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Indiana public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
37 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 15.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
63%
356 students
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 50%
Community
5
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 | 40 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 81 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 90 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (91) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (90).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 57% · 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
Test scores
ILEARN 2024-25 . % At or Above ProficiencyEnglish Language Arts
34.3%
IN avg 39.2%
Math
37.9%
IN avg 41.1%
What this means: On the ILEARN, Indiana's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Indiana schools, those numbers are about 39 and 41.
Source: ILEARN. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
31.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
31.2%
based on IN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+0.7pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 31% typical for Indiana schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Indiana's top nor bottom 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 (31.9% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary School this school | 568 | 62.7% | 31.9% |
| Lafayette Park Elementary School Kokomo | 527 | 62.0% | 28.4% |
| Eastside Elementary School Anderson | 581 | 64.2% | 33.7% |
| Taylor Elementary School Kokomo | 494 | 63.8% | 24.1% |
| Valley Mills Elementary School Indianapolis | 554 | 65.7% | 21.0% |
| Fairlawn Elementary School Evansville | 450 | 60.4% | 8.9% |
Matched among Indiana 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 Indiana | In Clark County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 31.9% | #683 of 983 | #9 of 13 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.9% | #641 of 986 | #8 of 13 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.3% | #584 of 986 | #7 of 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 568 | #228 of 1,079 | #6 of 15 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #580 of 991 | #9 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.9% | #165 of 996 | #6 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 62.7% | #299 of 1,058 | #5 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +20.3% | #93 of 353 | #2 of 8 |
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
568
+105 (+23%) vs 2020
+22% since 1990-91, when it was 464
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 22.1:1
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 | 568 | 36.5 | 15.6:1 | 63% (356) |
| 2023-24 | 557 | 39.5 | 14.1:1 | 63% (353) |
| 2022-23 | 548 | 41 | 13.4:1 | 62% (340) |
| 2020-21 | 463 | 21 | 22.1:1 | 55% (253) |
| 2017-18 | 472 | 22 | 21.4:1 | 57% (271) |
| 2015-16 | 479 | 23 | 20.8:1 | 57% (275) |
| 2010-11 | 486 | 31 | 15.7:1 | 59% (289) |
| 2000-01 | 447 | 23 | 19.4:1 | 44% (197) |
| 1990-91 | 464 | 22 | 21.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary School.
About Riverside Elementary School
As a medium-sized elementary school, Riverside Elementary School serves students in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 568 students. Against the 436-student average for elementary schools in Indiana, enrollment here is 30% higher.
Riverside Elementary School is among 17 schools run by Greater Clark County Schools, which serves 10,643 students.
Roughly 51% of students at Riverside Elementary School are White. Other groups make up 21% multiracial, 17% Black, and 9% Hispanic. County-wide, 82% of Clark County residents are White. Pick two students at random and there is a 66% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Federal data list 36.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at Riverside Elementary School in 2024-25, for a ratio of 15.6:1. That matches the 15.5:1 average for elementary schools in Indiana fairly closely. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 63%. On average, public schools in Clark County report 50%.
Measured against Indiana public elementary schools, Riverside Elementary School receives a C. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, Riverside Elementary School would be expected to post about 31.2%. Its actual average proficiency rate on state tests is 31.9%.
Clark County has about 124,354 residents, and the median household income is $74,214, 28% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Besides Riverside Elementary School, Clark County has 32 other public schools.
Nearby, Jeffersonville High School is about 1.1 miles away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. Riverside Elementary School's average proficiency of 31.9% compares with 40.3% for its nearest scored neighbors.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has grown by 105 students since 2020-21, to 568. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 15.6:1, from 22.1:1.
Threads on this page can be about sports schedules, lunch menus, and spirit week. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Clark County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
124,354
Census ACS
Median income
$74,214
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
33
23,765 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Greater Clark County Schools
- Jeffersonville High SchoolHigh · 2,202 students
- Charlestown Senior High SchoolHigh · 860 students
- River Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Parkview Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Charlestown Middle SchoolMiddle · 647 students
- Utica Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
Other schools in Jeffersonville
- Jeffersonville High SchoolHigh · 2,202 students
- River Valley Middle SchoolMiddle · 857 students
- Parkview Middle SchoolMiddle · 656 students
- Utica Elementary SchoolElementary · 608 students
- Northaven Elementary SchoolElementary · 544 students
- Franklin Square Elementary SchoolElementary · 524 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary School is the 12th largest of the 44.
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
- Riverside ElementaryAlexandria, VA · 741 students
Nearby schools
- Jeffersonville High School1.1 mi · 2,202
- Northaven Elementary School1.7 mi · 544
- Utica Elementary School1.9 mi · 608
- W E Wilson Elementary2.3 mi · 518
- Parkview Middle School2.4 mi · 656
- River Valley Middle School2.5 mi · 857
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside Elementary SchoolHow large is Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School enrolls approximately 568 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Riverside Elementary School serve?
Riverside Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Riverside Elementary School?
At Riverside Elementary School, the student body is approximately 51% White, 9% Hispanic, 17% Black, 1% Asian, 21% Two or more.
What district is Riverside Elementary School in?
Riverside Elementary School is part of Greater Clark County Schools.
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