Riverside Primary School

Riverside Primary School is a compact elementary school in Elwood, Kansas, run under Riverside. The school hosts 168 students in grades pre-K through 2. Enrollment runs roughly 46% below the state mean of about 313.

Within Riverside, which oversees 5 schools and 638 students, Riverside Primary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverside Primary School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (83%). The remainder is composed of 11% multiracial, 5% Hispanic.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Riverside Primary School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.6:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 54% of students at Riverside Primary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Doniphan County runs at roughly 45%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Doniphan County) shows that median household income runs about $74,028, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Riverside Primary School is one of 9 public schools in Doniphan County (combined enrollment of about 1,340 students).

Riverside Intermediate is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverside Primary School.

Geographically, the school is in a suburban area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Riverside Primary School's enrollment has edged down 24% since 2018, when it stood at 222 (now 168). Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 88% to 83%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 17.8:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 today.

On this page, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.