Riverside Intermediate School

Riverside Intermediate School is one of the sizable junior highs in Fishers, Indiana, run under Hamilton Southeastern Schools, with 891 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 6. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 50% bigger than typical.

Hamilton Southeastern Schools comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 21,062 students; Riverside Intermediate School is among them.

Looking at the student body, Riverside Intermediate School logs that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment; the rest reads as 13% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. By comparison, Hamilton County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Riverside Intermediate School records 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.2:1. The state averages around 15.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, Riverside Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 58.0%; this one delivers 62.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Hamilton County) logs that median household earnings sit near $121,530, about 62% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Hamilton County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students), Riverside Intermediate School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Riverside Junior High, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Intermediate School ranks 7th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 66.3%.

Riverside Intermediate School operates from a small-town location.

Over the past 7-year window. Riverside Intermediate School's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 932 (now 891). White enrollment moved from 75% to 63% across the same window.

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