Riverside High School

Located at 112 E WASHINGTON STREET, in RIVERSIDE, New Jersey, Riverside High School is a small secondary school that caters to 464 students (grades 9 through 12), overseen by Riverside Township School District. By comparison, New Jersey's public schools average about 929 students each, so Riverside High School sits 50% smaller than that benchmark.

Riverside Township School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,548 students; Riverside High School is among them.

Demographically, Riverside High School shows that 44% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest is composed of 38% Hispanic, 13% Black, 3% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 64%.

On the resource side, The school employs 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.7:1 average. Around 58% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, Riverside High School falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 34.2%; this one comes in at 11.7%, -22.5 points off the demographic line.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Burlington County indicate the typical household earns roughly $108,111 per year, 43% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Riverside High School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

The closest other public school is Riverside Elementary School, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverside High School comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 27.1%.

Riverside High School operates from a suburban location.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside High School has climbed 10%, going from 420 students in 2018 to 464 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 18% to 38% over that span. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.5:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, the feed for Riverside High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.