Riverside School

As a mid-tier elementary campus in WEST JORDAN, Utah, Riverside School serves 591 students from grades K through 6, overseen by Jordan District. By comparison, Utah's public schools average about 491 students each, so Riverside School sits 20% above that benchmark.

Across the 67 schools in Jordan District (58,788 students total), Riverside School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On the student-mix side, Riverside School lists that 53% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest consists of 37% Hispanic, 4% multiracial, 3% Black, 3% Pacific Islander. That is considerably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 70%.

On the resource side, Riverside School lists 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.0:1. The state averages around 21.8:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 43% of students at Riverside School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above Salt Lake County's rate of about 34%.

After controlling for student poverty, Riverside School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 38.7%, the actual is 40.8%, a residual of +2.0 points.

In the broader community, Salt Lake County reports that the typical household earns roughly $97,494 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Salt Lake County runs 325 public schools (combined enrollment of about 209,757 students), of which Riverside School is one.

Mountain Heights Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Riverside School comes 2nd of 4 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside School has shrank 23%, going from 767 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 57% to 53% across the same window.

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