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Enrollment
934
High
DISTRICT 910 · STATE 668
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363192000448
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL
565 WARBURTON AVE, YONKERS, NY 10701 · (914) 376-8425 · Westchester County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL934 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 29% of New York public high schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public high schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 11.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
83%
778 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 167 | 18% |
| Grade 10 | 208 | 22% |
| Grade 11 | 257 | 28% |
| Grade 12 | 302 | 32% |
Student demographics
48%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
73.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.0pp since 2023
Math
32.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 32 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 32.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 27.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
45.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
44.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+1.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 44% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL's state test result (45.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL this school | 934 | 83.3% | 45.5% |
| GORTON HIGH SCHOOL YONKERS | 1,068 | 82.0% | 41.7% |
| ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIES YONKERS | 1,096 | 82.6% | 52.2% |
| WILLIAMSBURG PREPARATORY SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 667 | 86.5% | 55.5% |
| BARACK OBAMA SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE YONKERS | 701 | 87.0% | 26.4% |
| WILLIAMSBURG HIGH SCHOOL FOR ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN BROOKLYN | 622 | 86.7% | 51.7% |
Matched among New York high schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.5% | #818 of 1,135 | #39 of 46 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 32.0% | #859 of 1,109 ▲ 62 | #44 of 48 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #540 of 1,135 ▲ 145 | #37 of 48 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 934 | #262 of 1,216 | #19 of 56 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #1,005 of 1,058 | #45 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 48.5% | #532 of 1,070 | #33 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 83.3% | #382 of 1,167 | #4 of 49 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.8% | #696 of 743 | #27 of 29 |
Ranked against other public high schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
934
-39 (-4%) vs 2020
-4% since 2000-01, when it was 970
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 15.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 934 | 60.9 | 15.3:1 | 83% (778) |
| 2023-24 | 981 | 60.7 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 969 | 60.5 | 16.0:1 | 86% (837) |
| 2020-21 | 973 | 62 | 15.7:1 | 92% (896) |
| 2017-18 | 951 | 60 | 15.8:1 | 83% (794) |
| 2015-16 | 971 | 60 | 16.2:1 | 91% (885) |
| 2000-01 | 970 | 80 | 12.1:1 | 75% (732) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL.
About RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the name of a mid-sized high school in YONKERS, New York. Its enrollment is 934 students, spread over grades 9 through 12. On average, high schools in New York enroll around 668, and this school is 40% above that mark.
YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is the district for RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL. It has 42 schools and 24,376 students.
More than half of the students at RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL are Hispanic (68%). Next come 23% Black, 4% White, 3% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That compares with about 27% Hispanic among all Westchester County residents. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 48%.
Teacher count: 60.9 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.3:1. The gap from the 11.0:1 average for high schools in New York is 4.3 students per teacher. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 83%. The gap from the 38% average for public schools in Westchester County is 45 points.
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 29% of New York public high schools.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate across its state test results of 44.4% for RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL. The school posts 45.5%, 1.1 points above the prediction.
Looking at the county, Westchester County, median household income comes to about $118,976, about 53% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 6%. The county's public schools total 255, with about 140,968 students.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, MUSEUM SCHOOL 25, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 8 nearby schools with scores, including this one, RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is 2nd on average proficiency.
Its location is classified as Suburb: Large by the National Center for Education Statistics.
The school's student count fell 4% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
- SAUNDERS TRADES & TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,039 students
Other schools in YONKERS
- YONKERS MONTESSORI ACADEMYCombined · 1,234 students
- LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,176 students
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCECombined · 1,127 students
- YONKERS HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,111 students
- ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL - EARLY COLLEGE STUDIESHigh · 1,096 students
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,068 students
Other Riverside High schools
19 other US public schools in 18 states are named Riverside High. RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is the 8th largest of the 20.
- Riverside HighDurham, NC · 1,900 students
- Riverside HighGreer, SC · 1,846 students
- Riverside HighLeesburg, VA · 1,710 students
- RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOLJACKSONVILLE, FL · 1,638 students
- Riverside HighMilwaukee, WI · 1,240 students
Nearby schools
- MUSEUM SCHOOL 250.1 mi · 219
- SCHOOL 160.6 mi · 582
- GORTON HIGH SCHOOL0.6 mi · 1,068
- GREENBURGH ACADEMY0.6 mi · 136
- CHARTER SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE0.8 mi · 1,127
- SCHOOL 90.9 mi · 278
Frequently asked questions
About RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL?
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL enrolls approximately 934 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL serve?
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL serves grades 09-12.
How many teachers does RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL have?
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL employs 61 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL?
At RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 4% White, 68% Hispanic, 23% Black, 2% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL public or private?
RIVERSIDE HIGH SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by YONKERS CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.