Riverside Elementary School

As a low-enrollment elementary-level community in Simmesport, Louisiana, Riverside Elementary School caters to 197 students from grades pre-K through 6, run under Avoyelles Parish. Enrollment runs roughly 57% leaner than the state mean of about 453.

Within Avoyelles Parish, which oversees 10 schools and 4,794 students, Riverside Elementary School is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Riverside Elementary School logs that Black students make up the majority at 64%; the rest breaks down as 31% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Avoyelles Parish as a whole is about 27% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, Riverside Elementary School has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.0:1 average. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Avoyelles Parish (around 73%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

With demographic context factored in, Riverside Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 18.1%, the actual is 28.0%, a residual of +9.9 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Avoyelles Parish indicate median household earnings sit near $39,325, about 12% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Riverside Elementary School is one of 13 public schools in Avoyelles Parish (combined enrollment of about 5,726 students).

Avoyelles High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 10.5 miles from this campus. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riverside Elementary School at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 23.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a low-density area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Riverside Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 33% since 2018, when it stood at 292 (now 197). White enrollment moved from 41% to 31% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 19.5:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

On the community side, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.