RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE)

RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) is one of the mid-sized K-5 schools in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, with 480 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 8.

RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) is one of 44 schools operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 3, a district that serves 19,478 students overall.

On demographics, RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 65% of enrollment; the rest looks like 18% Black, 9% White, 5% Asian, 3% multiracial. By comparison, New York County as a whole is about 24% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.5:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) tighter than the state norm the norm. About 86% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against New York County (around 70%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 43.4%; RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) posts 17.5%, -25.8 points below that line.

In the area at large, census data for New York County shows the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, New York County runs 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), of which RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) is one.

WEST END SECONDARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE). Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), RIVERSIDE SCHOOL FOR MAKERS AND ARTISTS (THE) ranks 9th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 60.3%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 8%: 520 students in 2018 compared to 480 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 46% to 65% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.

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