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If you had an hour of school board time for RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
402
Elementary
DISTRICT 473 · STATE 446
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WESTERN LINE SCHOOLS·NCES 280468000876
Riverside Elementary School
939 Riverside Road, Avon, MS 38723 · (662) 335-4528 · Washington County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY42-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL402 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 30% of Mississippi public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 Mississippi public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
29 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.5:1 · STATE 15.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
99%
399 students
DISTRICT 99% · STATE 80%
Community
1
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 | 32 | 8% |
| Kindergarten | 44 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 58 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 43 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 51 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 52 | 13% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 73 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (44) is 40% smaller than its 6th grade class (73).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 62% · 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
MAAP 2024-25 . % Proficient + AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
47.5%
MS avg 45.9% . +6.6pp since 2023
Math
36.9%
MS avg 52.8% . +5.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the MAAP, Mississippi's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Mississippi schools, those numbers are about 46 and 53. Reading and writing scores are up about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 6 points.
MAAP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 47.5% | 36.9% |
| 2023-24 | 40.9% | 31.4% |
% Proficient + Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: MAAP. 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
44.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.5%
based on MS schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-0.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for Mississippi 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 Mississippi'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 Riverside Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School's state test result (44.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary School this school | 402 | 99.3% | 44.3% |
| Beat Four School Waynesboro | 416 | 99.3% | 35.5% |
| Lake Elementary School Lake | 333 | 99.1% | 67.1% |
| Bowmar Avenue VICKSBURG | 324 | 100.0% | 61.1% |
| Buckatunna School Buckatunna | 418 | 99.3% | 49.9% |
| Hayes Cooper Center MERIGOLD | 304 | 100.0% | 66.2% |
Matched among Mississippi 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 Riverside Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Mississippi | In Washington County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 44.3% | #312 of 428 | #5 of 11 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 36.9% | #318 of 439 ▲ 41 | #8 of 12 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.5% | #234 of 439 ▲ 81 | #3 of 12 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 402 | #223 of 453 | #2 of 12 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.9:1 | #122 of 408 | #4 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 60.5% | #77 of 409 | #1 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.3% | #156 of 444 | #12 of 12 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -32.1% | #38 of 296 | #5 of 9 |
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
402
-15 (-4%) vs 2020
-57% since 1990-91, when it was 927
Student : Teacher
13.9:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 402 | 28.9 | 13.9:1 | 99% (399) |
| 2023-24 | 400 | 39 | 10.3:1 | 100% (398) |
| 2022-23 | 411 | 39.4 | 10.4:1 | 100% (411) |
| 2020-21 | 417 | 35 | 11.9:1 | 100% (417) |
| 2017-18 | 592 | 37.6 | 15.8:1 | 100% (592) |
| 2015-16 | 590 | 36 | 16.4:1 | 99% (587) |
| 2010-11 | 634 | 36 | 17.6:1 | 87% (552) |
| 2000-01 | 494 | 28 | 17.6:1 | 80% (397) |
| 1990-91 | 927 | 62 | 14.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary School.
About Riverside Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Avon, Mississippi. The latest federal count shows 402 students in pre-K through 6.
Western Line Schools is the local district for Riverside Elementary School. It runs 4 schools with 1,739 students.
Federal enrollment data show White students as the largest group at Riverside Elementary School, at 49%. The rest of enrollment is 38% Black, 8% multiracial, and 5% Hispanic. Among all residents of Washington County, the White share is about 24%. Riverside Elementary School's diversity index is 60%, against a US figure of 70%.
Riverside Elementary School's 28.9 full-time-equivalent teachers put its ratio at 13.9:1. On average, elementary schools in Mississippi have 15.9:1, compared with 13.9:1 here. The school's rate of free or reduced-price lunch eligibility is 99%. That tracks the 100% average for public schools in Washington County.
Riverside Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 30% of Mississippi public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate on state tests with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For Riverside Elementary School, the prediction is 44.5% and the result is 44.3%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Washington County show that the median household income is $42,165, about 22% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 22%. Besides Riverside Elementary School, Washington County has 24 other public schools.
The nearest other public school, Riverside High School, is less than a tenth of a mile away. On state test proficiency, Riverside Elementary School ranks 3rd in a group of 9 nearby schools.
Riverside Elementary School is coded as Rural: Distant in federal locale data.
Enrollment declined 4% from its 2020-21 level of 417. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 11.9:1 in 2020-21 to 13.9:1 in 2024-25.
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Washington County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
42,765
Census ACS
Median income
$42,165
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
22%
Below federal line
Schools in county
25
6,329 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Western Line Schools
- O'Bannon Elementary SchoolElementary · 543 students
- O'Bannon High SchoolHigh · 474 students
- Riverside High SchoolHigh · 320 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary School is the 23rd largest of the 44.
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
- Riverside ElementaryAlexandria, VA · 741 students
Nearby schools
- Riverside High School0.0 mi · 320
- Akin Elementary School10.1 mi · 255
- O'Bannon Elementary School11.1 mi · 543
- O'Bannon High School11.1 mi · 474
- T.L. Weston Middle School11.3 mi · 412
- Boyd Elementary School11.5 mi · 298
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside Elementary SchoolHow large is Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School enrolls approximately 402 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does Riverside Elementary School serve?
Riverside Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School?
Approximately 13.9:1 students per teacher at Riverside Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Riverside Elementary School?
Student demographics at Riverside Elementary School are roughly 49% White, 5% Hispanic, 38% Black, 8% Two or more.
Is Riverside Elementary School public or private?
Riverside Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Western Line Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.