Riverside Academy

Riverside Academy, a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in DEARBORN, Michigan, one of the schools within Riverside Academy, enrolls 397 students, covering grades K through 5.

Riverside Academy comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 867 students; Riverside Academy is among them.

Demographically, Riverside Academy logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (90%). The remainder reads as 7% Black, 2% Hispanic. By comparison, Wayne County as a whole is about 49% White, so the school skews noticeably more White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.2:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.8:1, putting Riverside Academy tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Riverside Academy qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Wayne County runs at roughly 66%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverside Academy tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 22.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 20.4%.

In the area at large, Wayne County reports that the typical household earns roughly $60,539 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 16%. Across Wayne County's 573 public schools (combined enrollment of about 259,786 students), Riverside Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Iris Becker Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riverside Academy at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 43.7%.

Riverside Academy operates from an urban location. Riverside Academy operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Riverside Academy's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 398 (now 397). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 14.2:1 today.

On the community side, the feed for Riverside Academy typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. The community welcomes input from current and former families.