Riverside Elementary

Riverside Elementary operates as a low-enrollment elementary school in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Fond du Lac School District. Current enrollment sits at 273 students spanning grades pre-K through 5.

Fond du Lac School District comprises 15 schools with combined enrollment of 6,457 students; Riverside Elementary is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Riverside Elementary lists that the largest single group is White at 45%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 32% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, 10% Black. The wider county runs roughly 88% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.3:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Riverside Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 70% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Fond du Lac County's rate of about 41%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverside Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 34.7%, the actual is 46.8%, a residual of +12.0 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Fond du Lac County put median household earnings sit near $74,275, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Fond du Lac County runs 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students), of which Riverside Elementary is one.

Fond du Lac STEM Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside Elementary ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 52.4%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Riverside Elementary's enrollment has edged down 10% since 2018, when it stood at 305 (now 273). The White share of enrollment shrank from 54% to 45% over that span.

On the community side, members of the Riverside Elementary community share and discuss classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to weigh in.