RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of the tight-knit elementary campuss in ONEONTA, New York, overseen by ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 246 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. That puts it 44% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Across the 5 schools in ONEONTA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (1,679 students total), RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (81%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 8% Hispanic, 8% Black.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 50% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Otsego County runs at roughly 42%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.8%, the actual is 38.5%, a residual of -18.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Otsego County) logs that median household income runs about $68,885, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Otsego County's 21 public schools (combined enrollment of about 6,216 students), RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

GREATER PLAINS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 4 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 ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 9th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 55.5%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 7%: 264 students in 2018 compared to 246 in 2025. The White share of enrollment rose from 76% to 81% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 10.0:1 today.

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