Riveroaks Elementary School

Riveroaks Elementary School is a K-5 school of mid-sized scale in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, one of the schools within East Baton Rouge Parish, hosting 492 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Riveroaks Elementary School is one of 83 schools operated by East Baton Rouge Parish, a district that teaches 40,083 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Riveroaks Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (51%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 41% Black, 5% White. The wider county runs roughly 7% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 67% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, Riveroaks Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Louisiana public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 36.4%; Riveroaks Elementary School posts 22.0%, -14.4 points below that line.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for East Baton Rouge Parish put the typical household earns roughly $63,071 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. In all, East Baton Rouge Parish runs 132 public schools (combined enrollment of about 66,892 students), of which Riveroaks Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Twin Oaks Elementary School, around 0.9 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riveroaks Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Riveroaks Elementary School comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 31.5%.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Riveroaks Elementary School's enrollment has increased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 435 (now 492). Over the same period, the Hispanic share increased from 41% to 51%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 17.4:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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