Riverside Central Elementary School

Riverside Central Elementary School is an elementary-level community of middle-of-the-pack scale in ROCHESTER, Minnesota, run under Rochester Public School District, instructing 509 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 48% larger than typical.

Within Rochester Public School District, which oversees 44 schools and 17,171 students, Riverside Central Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverside Central Elementary School lists that 34% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder consists of 33% Hispanic, 15% Black, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 77%.

On the resource side, Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Olmsted County runs at roughly 35%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverside Central Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.0%, the actual is 29.4%, a residual of -3.6 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Olmsted County shows the typical household earns roughly $95,406 per year, 49% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Riverside Central Elementary School is one of 72 public schools in Olmsted County (combined enrollment of about 24,627 students).

The closest other public school is Lincoln K-8 School, roughly 0.7 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Central Elementary School has changed only slightly, going from 516 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 19% to 33% over that span.

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