RIVERCHASE ELE

RIVERCHASE ELE operates as a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in COPPELL, Texas, part of CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD. Current enrollment sits at 496 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

RIVERCHASE ELE is one of 39 schools operated by CARROLLTON-FARMERS BRANCH ISD, a district that caters to 24,165 students overall.

On the student-mix side, RIVERCHASE ELE lists that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Beyond that, the school logs 25% Asian, 22% Black, 5% White, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

Looking at the economic backdrop, RIVERCHASE ELE reports 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 15.1:1, putting RIVERCHASE ELE tighter than the state norm the norm. About 54% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dallas County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, RIVERCHASE ELE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.4%, the actual is 57.8%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Dallas County put the typical household earns roughly $76,547 per year, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Dallas County's 771 public schools (combined enrollment of about 459,645 students), RIVERCHASE ELE is one campus in the mix.

UNIVERSAL ACADEMY - COPPELL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts RIVERCHASE ELE at 5th of 6; the average score across the group is 63.0%.

RIVERCHASE ELE operates from a bedroom-community location.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at RIVERCHASE ELE has rose 39%, going from 358 students in 2018 to 496 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 25% to 42% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.6:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

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