Riverside Elementary School

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Pearl River, Louisiana, Riverside Elementary School caters to 420 students from grades 1 through 5, run under St. Tammany Parish.

Riverside Elementary School is one of 55 schools operated by St. Tammany Parish, a district that teaches 35,956 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverside Elementary School logs that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest reads as 17% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 5% Black. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, Riverside Elementary School reports 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.4:1. The state averages around 14.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 49% of students at Riverside Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverside Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 48.8% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 43.7%.

Across the wider county, St. Tammany Parish reports that median household income runs about $81,202, 38% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 9%. In all, St. Tammany Parish runs 56 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,212 students), of which Riverside Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Little Pearl Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverside Elementary School. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.2%.

The school occupies a residential site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Elementary School has decreased 3%, going from 432 students in 2018 to 420 in 2025. The White share of enrollment ticked down from 82% to 72% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 16.1:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

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