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What's the one class at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY every student should take?
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Enrollment
573
Elementary
DISTRICT 551 · STATE 344
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 271182004376
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY
4100 208TH ST WEST, FARMINGTON, MN 55024 · (651) 460-1600 · Dakota County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL573 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 25% of Minnesota public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Minnesota public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.8:1 · STATE 13.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
20%
116 students
DISTRICT 28% · STATE 48%
Community
5
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 23 | 4% |
| Kindergarten | 68 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 71 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 91 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 87 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 116 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 117 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (68) is 42% smaller than its 5th grade class (117).
Student demographics
40%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 60% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsEnglish Language Arts
48.7%
MN avg 49.7%
Math
48.2%
MN avg 45.3%
What this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 49 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 Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
Source: MCA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
43.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.2%
based on MN schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 54% typical for Minnesota schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Minnesota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY's state test result (43.6% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY this school | 573 | 20.2% | 43.6% |
| JONATHAN ELEMENTARY CHASKA | 541 | 20.0% | 61.3% |
| OTSEGO ELEMENTARY OTSEGO | 536 | 21.5% | 58.3% |
| Hamilton Ridge Elementary School SAVAGE | 586 | 19.5% | 47.9% |
| LAKEVIEW ELEMENTARY LAKEVILLE | 588 | 17.5% | 66.1% |
| Byron Primary School BYRON | 519 | 18.1% | N/A |
Matched among Minnesota elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Minnesota | In Dakota County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.6% | #459 of 844 | #36 of 60 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.2% | #468 of 844 | #37 of 60 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #418 of 844 | #35 of 60 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 573 | #193 of 1,130 | #26 of 73 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.9:1 | #288 of 769 | #17 of 58 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.8% | #478 of 796 | #53 of 59 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 20.2% | #828 of 942 | #57 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -28.6% | #71 of 499 | #1 of 36 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
573
-182 (-24%) vs 2020
-17% since 2010-11, when it was 693
Student : Teacher
12.9:1
was 13.5:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 573 | 44.3 | 12.9:1 | 20% (116) |
| 2023-24 | 585 | 45.9 | 12.7:1 | 19% (112) |
| 2022-23 | 645 | 44.4 | 14.5:1 | 18% (117) |
| 2020-21 | 755 | 56 | 13.5:1 | 11% (83) |
| 2017-18 | 802 | 50.8 | 15.8:1 | 10% (80) |
| 2015-16 | 807 | 45 | 17.9:1 | 10% (79) |
| 2010-11 | 693 | 36 | 19.3:1 | 12% (82) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY.
Since 2017-18: students down 29% (802 to 573); teachers down 13% (50.8 to 44.3).
About RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is an elementary school in FARMINGTON, Minnesota, reachable at (651) 460-1600. The school serves 573 students in pre-K through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Minnesota is roughly 344 students; this school is 67% larger than that.
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is part of FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, where 9 schools serve 6,458 students.
At 77%, White students outnumber all other groups at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY combined. It is also 9% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 4% Black, and 4% Asian. That is close to the 74% White share among all Dakota County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 40%.
A ratio of 12.9:1 comes from the school's 44.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. The 13.7:1 average for elementary schools in Minnesota is higher than this school's figure. The lunch program counts 20% of students at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 34% average for public schools in Dakota County, the school's rate is lower.
The allk12 Grade for RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is C. Compared with Minnesota public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 25% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is 10.6 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Minnesota schools.
Federal survey data for Dakota County show that median household income is about $106,318, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 45% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. A total of 170 public schools operate in Dakota County, serving about 74,687 students.
The nearest other public school, LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.2 miles away. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 40.7%; RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY's is 43.6%, ranking 2nd of 8.
Federal records code the school's setting as Suburb: Large.
The student count in 2024-25 was 573, 24% below the 755 of 2020-21.
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Dakota County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
445,771
Census ACS
Median income
$106,318
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
45%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
170
74,687 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT
- FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 855 students
- LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 692 students
- NORTH TRAIL ELEMENTARYElementary · 612 students
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 600 students
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 493 students
Other schools in FARMINGTON
- FARMINGTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,153 students
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 855 students
- LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 692 students
- NORTH TRAIL ELEMENTARYElementary · 612 students
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARYElementary · 600 students
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARYElementary · 493 students
Other Riverview Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 19 states are named Riverview Elementary. RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is the 6th largest of the 30.
- Riverview ElementaryFort Mill, SC · 711 students
- Riverview ElementaryFresno, CA · 700 students
- Riverview ElementarySpotsylvania, VA · 691 students
- Riverview Elementary SchoolHamilton, OH · 640 students
- Riverview Elementary SchoolPainesville, OH · 615 students
Nearby schools
- LEVI P. DODGE MIDDLE SCHOOL0.2 mi · 692
- Great Oaks Academy - Grammar0.4 mi · 430
- FARMINGTON ELEMENTARY1.0 mi · 493
- ROBERT BOECKMAN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 855
- AKIN ROAD ELEMENTARY1.9 mi · 479
- MEADOWVIEW ELEMENTARY2.5 mi · 600
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARYHow large is RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY?
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY enrolls approximately 573 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY serve?
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY serves grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY?
The student-to-teacher ratio at RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is approximately 12.9:1 (44 FTE teachers).
How diverse is RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY?
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY reports a student body of 77% White, 9% Hispanic, 4% Black, 4% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY in?
RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARY is part of FARMINGTON PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.