Riverside
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 104 | 30% |
| Kindergarten | 39 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 44 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (39) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (42).
School pathway
Test scores
MCAS 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsWhat this means: On the MCAS, Massachusetts's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 48 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Massachusetts schools, those numbers are about 44 and 42. Reading and writing scores are down about 4 points since 2016, while math scores are up about 7 points.
MCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 43.0% | 48.0% |
| 2023-24 | 34.0% | 46.0% |
| 2022-23 | 29.0% | 40.0% |
| 2021-22 | 34.0% | 35.0% |
| 2020-21 | 63.0% | 41.0% |
| 2018-19 | 51.0% | 54.0% |
| 2017-18 | 49.0% | 45.0% |
| 2016-17 | 47.0% | 41.0% |
Where Riverside ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Massachusetts | In Essex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #385 of 920 ▲ 42 | #41 of 111 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 43.0% | #438 of 920 ▲ 122 | #48 of 111 ▲ 8 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +11.0pp | #59 of 901 | #9 of 107 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 350 | #588 of 1,086 | #75 of 129 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.8:1 | #571 of 938 | #81 of 115 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.4% | #769 of 938 | #68 of 115 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.1% | #573 of 602 | #62 of 67 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 350 | 27.4 | 12.8:1 | N/A |
| 2023-24 | 316 | 25.4 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 331 | 27.4 | 12.1:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 305 | 26 | 11.7:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 354 | 27 | 13.1:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 335 | 27 | 12.4:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 336 | 24 | 14.0:1 | 20% (66) |
| 2000-01 | 325 | N/A | N/A | 11% (37) |
| 1990-91 | 167 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
Since 2017-18: students down 1% (354 to 350); teachers up 2% (27 to 27.4).
About Riverside
Riverside is the name of a mid-sized elementary school in Danvers, Massachusetts. It reports enrollment of 350 students in pre-K through 5.
Danvers has 7 schools; together they serve 3,238 students.
A large majority of enrollment at Riverside is White, at 83%. It is also 11% Hispanic, 3% Black, and 2% multiracial. Essex County's residents are about 68% White, 15 points below the school's share. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Riverside scores 30%.
Riverside has 27.4 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.8:1. That is in line with the 12.2:1 average for elementary schools in Massachusetts.
Looking at the county, Essex County, the median household earns about $101,883 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 43%, and roughly 7% of residents are in poverty. Essex County has 221 public schools with about 113,427 students, including Riverside.
A public school about 0.6 miles away, Holten Richmond Middle School, is the closest to Riverside. Riverside has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
By 2024-25, enrollment had risen to 350, from 305 in 2020-21. The ratio of students to teachers went from 11.7:1 to 12.8:1 over the same years.
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