Riverside Middle School

Riverside Middle School operates as a close-knit intermediate school in RIVERSIDE, New Jersey, overseen by Riverside Township School District. Current enrollment sits at 316 students spanning grades 6 through 8. That puts it 45% smaller than the typical public school in New Jersey, which averages around 578 students.

Riverside Middle School is one of 3 schools operated by Riverside Township School District, a district that educates 1,548 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Riverside Middle School shows that 47% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder is composed of 39% White, 13% Black. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 10%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, On paper, Riverside Middle School has 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.9:1 average. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Burlington County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Riverside Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.9%; this one delivers 16.4%.

In the area at large, census data for Burlington County shows median household earnings sit near $108,111, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Riverside Middle School is one of 139 public schools in Burlington County (combined enrollment of about 69,020 students).

Nearest neighbor: Riverside High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverside Middle School comes 7th of 8 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 26.4%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 24%: 255 students in 2018 compared to 316 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 30% to 47% over that span.

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