Riverside High School

Riverside High School operates as a compact high school in Avon, Mississippi, operated by Western Line Schools. Current enrollment sits at 320 students spanning grades 7 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 651 students per school, that is 51% below typical.

Within Western Line Schools, which oversees 4 schools and 1,739 students, Riverside High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Riverside High School lists that the most-represented group is White (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Other groups include 28% Black, 19% multiracial, 7% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.6:1, putting Riverside High School higher than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverside High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.6%; this one delivers 40.2%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Washington County) records that the typical household earns roughly $42,165 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 22%. Across Washington County's 25 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,329 students), Riverside High School is one campus in the mix.

Riverside Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 21%: 405 students in 2018 compared to 320 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 71% to 44% over that span.

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