RIVERBEND SCH.

RIVERBEND SCH., a reasonably sized middle-grades school in PACIFIC, Missouri, one of the schools within MERAMEC VALLEY R-III, enrolls 442 students, covering grades 7 through 8.

MERAMEC VALLEY R-III runs 9 schools in total, collectively educating 3,131 students. RIVERBEND SCH. is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, RIVERBEND SCH. logs that the student body is overwhelmingly White (86%); the rest is composed of 6% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at school resources, On paper, RIVERBEND SCH. has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 14.1:1. The state averages around 13.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 46% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, RIVERBEND SCH. sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 50.4%; this one delivers 55.8%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Franklin County shows median household income runs about $73,165, about 24% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Franklin County's 41 public schools (combined enrollment of about 15,025 students), RIVERBEND SCH. is one campus in the mix.

TRUMAN ELEM. is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERBEND SCH.. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERBEND SCH. ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 28.1%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. RIVERBEND SCH.'s enrollment has grew 92% since 2018, when it stood at 230 (now 442).

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.