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Teachers: what resource would make the biggest difference at Riverside El Sch this year?
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Enrollment
694
Elementary
DISTRICT 526 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·READING SD·NCES 422004000845
Riverside Elementary School
1400 Centre Avenue, Reading, PA 19601 · (610) 371-5896 · Berks County
GRADES PK–04ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL694 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
49 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
692 students
DISTRICT 101% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 35 | 5% |
| Kindergarten | 104 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 160 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 120 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 139 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 136 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (104) is 24% smaller than its 4th grade class (136).
Student demographics
19%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 22% · STATE 59% · 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
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
15.9%
PA avg 51.1% . -5.4pp since 2023
Math
14.6%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 16 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 15.9% | 14.6% |
| 2023-24 | 21.3% | 13.7% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. 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
19.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.9%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 20% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania 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 Pennsylvania'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 Elementary School
Riverside Elementary School's state test result (19.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary School this school | 694 | 99.7% | 19.6% |
| Amanda E Stout Elementary School Reading | 758 | 97.4% | 18.8% |
| Pan American Academy CS Philadelphia | 749 | 99.6% | 14.1% |
| Lauers Park Elementary School Reading | 615 | 92.0% | 27.2% |
| Sixteenth & Haak Elementary School Reading | 527 | 98.7% | 26.9% |
| Brigadier General Anna Mae Hays Elementary School Allentown | 807 | 99.9% | 18.0% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary 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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Berks County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 19.6% | #1,294 of 1,396 | #43 of 44 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 14.6% | #1,354 of 1,511 ▼ 13 | #44 of 47 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 15.9% | #1,418 of 1,511 ▼ 33 | #44 of 47 ▼ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 694 | #145 of 1,638 | #4 of 48 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.1:1 | #1,084 of 1,528 | #34 of 48 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 18.7% | #1,210 of 1,531 | #44 of 48 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.7% | #314 of 1,600 | #10 of 48 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.9% | #327 of 1,045 | #13 of 33 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
694
-17 (-2%) vs 2020
-4% since 1990-91, when it was 723
Student : Teacher
14.1:1
was 15.8:1
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 | 694 | 49.3 | 14.1:1 | 100% (692) |
| 2023-24 | 692 | 46 | 15.0:1 | 100% (692) |
| 2022-23 | 727 | 43.3 | 16.8:1 | 100% (727) |
| 2020-21 | 711 | 45 | 15.8:1 | 100% (708) |
| 2017-18 | 856 | 49 | 17.5:1 | 100% (856) |
| 2015-16 | 873 | 49 | 17.8:1 | 100% (873) |
| 2010-11 | 891 | 47 | 19.0:1 | 90% (805) |
| 2000-01 | 971 | 38 | 25.6:1 | 60% (581) |
| 1990-91 | 723 | 35 | 20.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 19% (856 to 694); teachers up 1% (49 to 49.3).
About Riverside Elementary School
Federal records list Riverside Elementary School as an elementary school in Reading, Pennsylvania. It enrolls 694 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are pre-K through 4. That puts enrollment 57% larger than the 443-student average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania.
Reading SD has 16,423 students spread across 19 schools.
At Riverside Elementary School, 90% of students are Hispanic. Smaller groups are 6% Black and 3% White. For comparison, the population of Berks County is roughly 25% Hispanic. The diversity index for Riverside Elementary School is 19%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at Riverside Elementary School comes to 49.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.1:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania is 13.1:1. Riverside Elementary School counts 100% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Berks County averages 67%, lower than here.
On BeatsExpectations, Riverside Elementary School is 15.2 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of Pennsylvania schools.
American Community Survey estimates for Berks County show that the median household earns about $79,777 a year, about 28% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 9%. Across Berks County, 95 public schools serve about 62,375 students.
Among nearby public schools, Northwest Middle School is closest at about 0.4 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Nearby schools with test data average 25.6% proficiency; Riverside Elementary School posts 19.6%.
Under the NCES locale system, Riverside Elementary School is City: Small.
Enrollment in 2024-25 was 694, close to the 711 recorded in 2020-21. Students per teacher dropped from 15.8 in 2020-21 to 14.1 in 2024-25.
People who know Riverside Elementary School can post here about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Berks County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
433,015
Census ACS
Median income
$79,777
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
28%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
9%
Below federal line
Schools in county
95
62,375 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Reading SD
- Reading SHSHigh · 4,879 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,785 students
- Northeast Middle SchoolMiddle · 868 students
- Northwest Middle SchoolMiddle · 821 students
- Amanda E Stout Elementary SchoolElementary · 758 students
- Southern Middle SchoolMiddle · 661 students
Other schools in Reading
- Reading SHSHigh · 4,879 students
- Central Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,785 students
- Exeter Twp SHSHigh · 1,312 students
- Muhlenberg El CenterElementary · 1,241 students
- Muhlenberg High SchoolHigh · 1,166 students
- Muhlenberg Jr High SchoolMiddle · 1,016 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary School is the 7th largest of the 44.
- Riverside Elementary SchoolEllwood City, PA · 667 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolRIVERSIDE, NJ · 768 students
Nearby schools
- Northwest Middle School0.4 mi · 821
- Glenside Elementary School0.8 mi · 261
- Northwest Elementary School0.9 mi · 496
- Twelfth & Marion Elementary School1.1 mi · 459
- Northeast Middle School1.2 mi · 868
- Lauers Park Elementary School1.2 mi · 615
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School enrolls approximately 694 students in grades PK-04.
Is Riverside Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Riverside Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-04.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Riverside Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Riverside Elementary School is approximately 14.1:1 (49 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School reports a student body of 3% White, 90% Hispanic, 6% Black, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Riverside Elementary School?
Riverside Elementary School is overseen by Reading SD in Berks County.
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