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Riverview Intermediate School
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Test scores
MCA 2024-25 . % Meets or Exceeds StandardsWhat this means: On the MCA, Minnesota's statewide test, about 61 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 66 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Minnesota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 45.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% 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%.
About Riverview Intermediate School
Set in SARTELL, Minnesota, Riverview Intermediate School is a large K-5 school, run under Sartell-St. Stephen School District. It enrolls 914 students across grades 3 through 5. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 166% above typical.
Riverview Intermediate School is one of 5 schools operated by Sartell-St. Stephen School District, a district that teaches 3,943 students overall.
On demographics, Riverview Intermediate School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (84%). The remainder reads as 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Stearns County as a whole.
In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 56 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.3:1. The state averages around 13.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 22% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is south of Stearns County's rate of about 44%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverview Intermediate School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.3%; this one delivers 57.2%.
In the broader community, census data for Stearns County shows median household income runs about $77,066, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Stearns County runs 74 public schools (combined enrollment of about 24,160 students), of which Riverview Intermediate School is one.
The closest other public school is Sartell Middle, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverview Intermediate School.
Riverview Intermediate School operates from a residential location.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Stearns County at a glance
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