Riverside Junior High

Riverside Junior High is a middle school of middle-of-the-pack scale in Fishers, Indiana, run under Hamilton Southeastern Schools, hosting 885 students in grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 49% larger than the state mean of about 594.

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

In terms of who attends, Riverside Junior High reports that White students make up the majority at 67%; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 7% Black, 7% multiracial. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 80%.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 15.6:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 25% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverside Junior High performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 57.5%, the actual is 63.7%, a residual of +6.1 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Hamilton County indicate median household income runs about $121,530, 62% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Riverside Junior High is one of 69 public schools in Hamilton County (combined enrollment of about 63,065 students).

Riverside Intermediate School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Junior High ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 66.2%.

Riverside Junior High operates from a rural location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Junior High has shrank 11%, going from 998 students in 2018 to 885 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 77% to 67%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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