Riverdale High School

Riverdale High School operates as a well-populated four-year high school in Murfreesboro, Tennessee, overseen by Rutherford County. Current enrollment sits at 2,275 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 202% above the typical public school in Tennessee, which averages around 754 students.

Rutherford County runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 52,127 students. Riverdale High School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverdale High School logs that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 23% Black, 20% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. By comparison, Rutherford County as a whole is about 66% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

In the broader community, census data for Rutherford County shows the typical household earns roughly $85,470 per year, about 36% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Across Rutherford County's 69 public schools (combined enrollment of about 61,904 students), Riverdale High School is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Discovery School, roughly 1.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverdale High School.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Riverdale High School's enrollment has ticked up 9% since 2018, when it stood at 2,080 (now 2,275). White enrollment moved from 70% to 48% across the same window.

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