RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS is one of the one-room-style primary schools in CEDAR RAPIDS, Nebraska, one of the schools within RIVERSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOLS, with 82 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Nebraska's public schools average about 272 students each, so RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS sits 70% below that benchmark.

RIVERSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOLS comprises 4 schools with combined enrollment of 253 students; RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS is among them.

On the student-mix side, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school lists 12% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.4:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 21.0:1, putting RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Boone County's rate of about 39%.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Boone County put the typical household earns roughly $74,947 per year, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. In all, Boone County runs 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 918 students), of which RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS is one.

RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY - CEDAR RAPIDS has declined 4%, going from 85 students in 2018 to 82 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share expanded from 5% to 12%. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 9.5:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 today.

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