Riverside MS

Set in Ellwood City, Pennsylvania, Riverside MS is a tight-knit junior high, operated by Riverside Beaver County SD. It teaches 307 students across grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 594 students per school, that is 48% below typical.

Riverside Beaver County SD comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 1,435 students; Riverside MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, Riverside MS shows that nearly all students (94%) are White. Other groups include 4% multiracial.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Riverside MS has 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 16.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. An estimated 55% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Riverside MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 53.9%, the actual is 55.0%, a residual of +1.1 points.

In the broader community, Beaver County reports that median household income runs about $71,089, roughly 29% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Beaver County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,222 students), of which Riverside MS is one.

Nearest neighbor: Riverside HS, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 6 other public schools cluster around Riverside MS. On composite proficiency, Riverside MS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 50.5%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 9%: 336 students in 2018 compared to 307 in 2025.

On this page, members of the Riverside MS community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.