Riverside Middle School

As a low-enrollment middle-grades school in Chattaroy, Washington, Riverside Middle School serves 325 students from grades 6 through 8, run under Riverside School District. By comparison, Washington's public schools average about 577 students each, so Riverside Middle School sits 44% below that benchmark.

Riverside School District runs 5 schools in total, collectively educating 1,570 students. Riverside Middle School is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Riverside Middle School records that nearly all students (89%) are White. Beyond that, the school shows 6% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Roughly 57% of students at Riverside Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Riverside Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 44.7%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Spokane County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $78,582 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Spokane County runs 187 public schools (combined enrollment of about 76,588 students), of which Riverside Middle School is one.

Riverside Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverside Middle School comes 4th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.0%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside Middle School has ticked up 4%, going from 314 students in 2018 to 325 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 today.

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