Riverview Elementary School

Set in DENVILLE, New Jersey, Riverview Elementary School is a moderately sized primary school, overseen by Denville Township K-8 School District. It teaches 465 students across grades K through 5.

Denville Township K-8 School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,735 students; Riverview Elementary School is among them.

Demographically, Riverview Elementary School shows that White students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder looks like 8% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Morris County as a whole is about 68% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.4:1 average. About 3% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Morris County runs at roughly 19%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat below the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverview Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 64.3%, the actual is 65.1%, a residual of +0.8 points.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Morris County put median household income runs about $137,326, 58% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 3%. Across Morris County's 156 public schools (combined enrollment of about 72,239 students), Riverview Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Valleyview Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverview Elementary School comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 60.8%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Riverview Elementary School's enrollment has edged up 32% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 465).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on enrollment questions, classroom assignments, and PTA news. The community welcomes input from current and former families.