Riverside HS

As an intimate four-year high school in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, Riverside HS hosts 461 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Riverside Beaver County SD. That puts it 38% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 738 students.

Riverside HS is one of 3 schools operated by Riverside Beaver County SD, a district that teaches 1,435 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Riverside HS lists that 93% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 4% multiracial, 2% Hispanic.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Riverside HS higher than the state norm the norm. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Beaver County's rate of about 55%.

After controlling for student poverty, Riverside HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 58.6%, the actual is 53.3%, a residual of -5.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Beaver County) records that the typical household earns roughly $71,089 per year, about 29% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Beaver County's 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), Riverside HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Riverside El Sch, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside HS ranks 5th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 50.7%.

The campus sits in a low-density setting.

Five-year trend. Riverside HS's enrollment has decreased 4% since 2018, when it stood at 478 (now 461). Class-load math has pulled in: from 14.9:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 in 2025.

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