Riverside High School

Riverside High School operates as a compact 9-12 campus in Chattaroy, Washington, run under Riverside School District. Current enrollment sits at 432 students spanning grades 9 through 12. That puts it 25% below the typical public school in Washington, which averages around 573 students.

Within Riverside School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,570 students, Riverside High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Riverside High School logs that 86% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 21.6:1 average. Roughly 47% of students at Riverside High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

After controlling for student poverty, Riverside High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 44.0%, a residual of -4.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Spokane County shows median household income runs about $78,582, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across Spokane County's 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students), Riverside High School is one campus in the mix.

Independent Scholar is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 5 other public schools. Among the 5 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside High School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 51.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside High School has ticked down 8%, going from 472 students in 2018 to 432 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.5:1 in 2018 to 18.5:1 today.

On allk12, recent activity here tends to focus on pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.