River Ridge Elementary

River Ridge Elementary is one of the tight-knit primary schools in Patch Grove, Wisconsin, operated by River Ridge School District, with 190 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 4. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so River Ridge Elementary sits 41% below that benchmark.

River Ridge School District comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 481 students; River Ridge Elementary is among them.

On the student-mix side, River Ridge Elementary shows that the student body is overwhelmingly White (91%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, River Ridge Elementary has 16 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting River Ridge Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 47% of students at River Ridge Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, River Ridge Elementary sits in the top 10% of Wisconsin schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 48.9%; actual is 64.8%, +15.9 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Grant County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $66,858 per year, 26% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. River Ridge Elementary is one of 32 public schools in Grant County (combined enrollment of about 6,838 students).

River Ridge High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 2 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, River Ridge Elementary comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at River Ridge Elementary has declined 7%, going from 205 students in 2018 to 190 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 11.6:1 in 2025.

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