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Enrollment
691
Elementary
DISTRICT 639 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SPOTSYLVANIA COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510364000987
Riverview Elementary
7001 N Roxbury Mill Rd, Spotsylvania, VA 22553 · (540) 582-7617 · Spotsylvania County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY41-RURALTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL691 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 55% of Virginia public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
45 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.4:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
66%
457 students
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 93 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 109 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 105 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 112 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 110 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (93) is 15% smaller than its 5th grade class (110).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 71% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
73.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -8.0pp since 2022
Math
74.0%
VA avg 72.7% . -7.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 73 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 74 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 8 points since 2022, while math scores are down about 7 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 73.0% | 74.0% |
| 2023-24 | 78.0% | 75.0% |
| 2022-23 | 81.0% | 81.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
73.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.1%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+3.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 73% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Virginia schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Virginia's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Riverview Elementary
Riverview Elementary's state test result (73.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview Elementary this school | 691 | 66.1% | 73.3% |
| Spotsylvania Elementary Spotsylvania | 623 | 65.0% | 58.8% |
| David A. Harrison Elementary Disputanta | 630 | 64.0% | 68.9% |
| Freedom Middle Fredericksburg | 763 | 65.1% | 72.3% |
| Alanton Elementary Virginia Beach | 632 | 67.4% | 83.0% |
| Orange Elementary Orange | 621 | 60.4% | 66.6% |
Matched among Virginia elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Riverview Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Spotsylvania County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 73.3% | #491 of 1,101 | #3 of 18 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #579 of 1,111 ▼ 82 | #5 of 18 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 73.0% | #522 of 1,111 ▼ 143 | #3 of 18 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 691 | #199 of 1,176 | #7 of 18 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.4:1 | #832 of 1,105 | #10 of 18 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 66.2% | #362 of 1,106 | #14 of 18 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.1% | #739 of 1,157 | #7 of 18 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +9.0% | #141 of 324 | #4 of 9 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
691
+78 (+13%) vs 2020
-19% since 2000-01, when it was 857
Student : Teacher
15.4:1
was 16.1:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 691 | 45 | 15.4:1 | 66% (457) |
| 2023-24 | 669 | 42 | 15.9:1 | 71% (476) |
| 2022-23 | 633 | 43 | 14.7:1 | 67% (427) |
| 2020-21 | 613 | 38 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 634 | 40 | 15.8:1 | 50% (317) |
| 2015-16 | 717 | 38 | 18.9:1 | 46% (332) |
| 2010-11 | 602 | 37 | 16.3:1 | 33% (200) |
| 2000-01 | 857 | 52 | 16.5:1 | 23% (195) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverview Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 9% (634 to 691); teachers up 13% (40 to 45).
About Riverview Elementary
Riverview Elementary runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Spotsylvania, Virginia. It offers pre-K through 5 and has 691 students enrolled. Elementary schools in Virginia have about 499 students on average; enrollment here is 38% higher.
Spotsylvania County Public Schools has 29 schools and 24,036 students, and Riverview Elementary is one of those schools.
About 50% of the student body at Riverview Elementary is White. The remaining students are 21% Hispanic, 19% Black, and 7% multiracial. Among people living in Spotsylvania County, the White share is about 63%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
There are about 15.4 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at Riverview Elementary, which has 45. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in Virginia is 13.8:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at Riverview Elementary is about 66%.
Riverview Elementary holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 55% of Virginia public elementary schools.
In Virginia, Riverview Elementary is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 73.3% actual against a predicted 70.1%.
Census data for Spotsylvania County show the median household earns about $112,738 a year, roughly 35% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Riverview Elementary, Spotsylvania County has 34 public schools.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Thornburg Middle, is about 0.2 miles. Other public schools within five miles: 5. The average proficiency across nearby scored schools is 65.3%; Riverview Elementary's is 73.3%, ranking 1st of 9.
For locale, NCES codes Riverview Elementary as Rural: Fringe.
In 2020-21, Riverview Elementary enrolled 613 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 691.
This page collects posts and questions about Riverview Elementary, such as athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Spotsylvania County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
146,603
Census ACS
Median income
$112,738
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
34
24,036 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Spotsylvania County Public Schools
- Riverbend HighHigh · 1,913 students
- Massaponax HighHigh · 1,692 students
- Courtland HighHigh · 1,497 students
- Spotsylvania HighCombined · 1,394 students
- Chancellor HighHigh · 1,321 students
- Spotsylvania MiddleMiddle · 1,009 students
Other schools in Spotsylvania
- Spotsylvania HighCombined · 1,394 students
- Spotsylvania MiddleMiddle · 1,009 students
- Courthouse Road ElementaryElementary · 762 students
- Thornburg MiddleMiddle · 755 students
- Ni River MiddleMiddle · 692 students
- Post Oak MiddleMiddle · 679 students
Other Riverview Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 19 states are named Riverview Elementary. Riverview Elementary is the 3rd largest of the 30.
- Riverview ElementaryFort Mill, SC · 711 students
- Riverview ElementaryFresno, CA · 700 students
- Riverview Elementary SchoolHamilton, OH · 640 students
- Riverview Elementary SchoolPainesville, OH · 615 students
- RIVERVIEW ELEMENTARYFARMINGTON, MN · 573 students
Nearby schools
- Thornburg Middle0.2 mi · 755
- Massaponax High1.9 mi · 1,692
- Parkside Elementary3.2 mi · 946
- Spotsylvania Middle4.9 mi · 1,009
- Cedar Forest Elementary4.9 mi · 789
- Spotsylvania Elementary5.3 mi · 623
Frequently asked questions
About Riverview ElementaryHow many students attend Riverview Elementary?
Riverview Elementary enrolls approximately 691 students in grades PK-05.
What grades does Riverview Elementary serve?
Riverview Elementary serves grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Riverview Elementary have?
Riverview Elementary employs 45 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.4:1.
How diverse is Riverview Elementary?
Riverview Elementary reports a student body of 50% White, 21% Hispanic, 19% Black, 2% Asian, 7% Two or more.
What district is Riverview Elementary in?
Riverview Elementary is part of Spotsylvania County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.