RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL

RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is a tight-knit four-year high school in BUFFALO, New York, overseen by BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school teaches 285 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 668 students each, so RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL sits 57% below that benchmark.

BUFFALO CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 61 schools in total, collectively educating 29,425 students. RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL shows that the most-represented group is Black (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder is composed of 30% Hispanic, 11% White, 11% Asian, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 13%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. An estimated 96% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Erie County runs at roughly 51%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 39.6% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 24.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Erie County put median household earnings sit near $72,839, about 38% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL is one of 226 public schools in Erie County (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students).

WEST HERTEL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. RIVERSIDE ACADEMY HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has grew 194% since 2018, when it stood at 97 (now 285). Class-load math has tightened: from 97.0:1 in 2018 to 7.8:1 in 2025.

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