Riverdale Elementary School

Riverdale Elementary School, a sizable elementary campus in Germantown, Tennessee, overseen by Germantown, serves 1,184 students, covering grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 152% larger than the state mean of about 470.

Germantown runs 7 schools in total, collectively educating 6,053 students. Riverdale Elementary School is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Riverdale Elementary School reports that the largest single group is White, at 70% of enrollment; the rest reads as 12% Black, 7% Hispanic, 6% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Shelby County as a whole is about 34% White, so the school skews considerably more White than its surroundings.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Shelby County indicate median household income runs about $63,767, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Riverdale Elementary School is one of 287 public schools in Shelby County (combined enrollment of about 154,209 students).

Germantown High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 18%: 1,440 students in 2018 compared to 1,184 in 2025.

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