Riverside El Sch

Riverside El Sch is one of the sprawling elementary-level communitys in Reading, Pennsylvania, operated by Reading SD, with 694 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. Enrollment runs roughly 57% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Riverside El Sch is one of 19 schools operated by Reading SD, a district that works with 16,423 students overall.

Demographically, Riverside El Sch shows that nearly all students (90%) are Hispanic; the rest consists of 6% Black, 3% White. The wider county runs roughly 25% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Riverside El Sch shows 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. The state averages around 13.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 100% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably above Berks County's rate of about 67%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverside El Sch performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.9%, the actual is 19.6%, a residual of -15.2 points.

In the broader community, Berks County reports that the typical household earns roughly $79,777 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Berks County runs 95 public schools (combined enrollment of about 62,375 students), of which Riverside El Sch is one.

Northwest MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Riverside El Sch comes 6th of 7 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 25.6%.

The school occupies a high-density site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside El Sch has contracted 19%, going from 856 students in 2018 to 694 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 90% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 17.5:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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