Riverside Academy

As a rural-scale unified-grade school in Ashland City, Tennessee, Riverside Academy teaches 17 students from grades K through 12, overseen by Cheatham County. By comparison, Tennessee's public schools average about 243 students each, so Riverside Academy sits 93% leaner than that benchmark.

Cheatham County runs 14 schools in total, collectively educating 5,451 students. Riverside Academy is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Riverside Academy records that 88% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic. That composition is broadly in line with Cheatham County as a whole.

Zooming out to the county, Cheatham County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,852 per year, about 27% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Cheatham County's 14 public schools (combined enrollment of about 5,451 students), Riverside Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Cheatham County Virtual School, around 0.0 miles off. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Over the past 7-year window. Riverside Academy's enrollment has ticked down 41% since 2018, when it stood at 29 (now 17). Over the same period, the Hispanic share edged up from 3% to 12%.

On this page, members of the Riverside Academy community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.