Riverside Middle/Senior High School

Riverside Middle/Senior High School is one of the compact high schools in Oakland, Iowa, one of the schools within Riverside Comm School District, with 365 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. That puts it 22% smaller than the typical public school in Iowa, which averages around 468 students.

Riverside Comm School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 677 students; Riverside Middle/Senior High School is among them.

In terms of who attends, Riverside Middle/Senior High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). The remainder reads as 12% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Pottawattamie County as a whole.

On the resource side, The school lists 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 15.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 17.3:1, putting Riverside Middle/Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverside Middle/Senior High School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 74.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 74.2%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Pottawattamie County) logs that median household income runs about $73,602, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Across Pottawattamie County's 35 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,270 students), Riverside Middle/Senior High School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Oakland Elementary, around 1.1 miles off. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riverside Middle/Senior High School at 7th of 8; the average score across the group is 82.6%.

Riverside Middle/Senior High School operates from a rural location.

Five-year trend. Riverside Middle/Senior High School's enrollment has grew 50% since 2018, when it stood at 244 (now 365). The White share of enrollment ticked down from 90% to 85% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 10.8:1 in 2018 to 15.0:1 in 2025.

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