Riverside Elementary

Located at 820 PARK ST, in JACKSON, Minnesota, Riverside Elementary is a mid-tier K-5 school that caters to 350 students (grades pre-K through 3), one of the schools within Jackson County Central School Dist..

Jackson County Central School Dist. runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,093 students. Riverside Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Riverside Elementary records that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Beyond that, the school records 10% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 91% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Riverside Elementary reports 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.0:1. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Roughly 40% of students at Riverside Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.6%, the actual is 48.9%, a residual of +5.3 points.

Across the wider county, Jackson County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,743 per year, roughly 26% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Across Jackson County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 1,353 students), Riverside Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Jackson County Central Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Within ten miles, there are 3 other public schools, a sparser pattern than typical urban areas. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Riverside Elementary at 3rd of 8; the average score across the group is 48.5%.

The school occupies a low-density site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 7%: 375 students in 2018 compared to 350 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment rose from 5% to 10% over that span. Class-load math has widened: from 11.2:1 in 2018 to 13.0:1 in 2025.

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