Enrollment
273
Elementary
DISTRICT 309 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·FOND DU LAC SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550468000497
Riverside Elementary
396 Linden St, Fond du Lac, WI 54935 · (920) 929-2880 · Fond du Lac County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL273 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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 Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
24 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.1:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
70%
191 students
DISTRICT 52% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 | 29 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 35 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 41 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 46 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
67%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · STATE 54% · 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
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
45.3%
WI avg 53.1% . +1.2pp since 2023
Math
53.9%
WI avg 54.8% . +7.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are up about 1 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.3% | 53.9% |
| 2023-24 | 44.1% | 46.6% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. 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
46.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.7%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+12.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 35% typical for Wisconsin 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 Wisconsin'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 Riverside Elementary
Riverside Elementary's state test result (46.8% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Elementary this school | 273 | 70.0% | 46.8% |
| Grewenow Elementary Kenosha | 310 | 68.4% | 44.7% |
| Kosciuszko Elementary Cudahy | 208 | 69.2% | 48.1% |
| Lincoln Elementary Cudahy | 312 | 63.8% | 47.6% |
| Franklin Elementary West Allis | 244 | 67.2% | 37.0% |
| Gaston Elementary Beloit | 348 | 75.6% | 26.4% |
Matched among Wisconsin 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 Riverside Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Fond du Lac County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #669 of 982 | #13 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.9% | #521 of 992 ▲ 144 | #11 of 17 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #659 of 992 ▲ 24 | #13 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 273 | #705 of 1,157 | #13 of 23 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #172 of 901 | #6 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.2% | #129 of 901 | #5 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.0% | #181 of 1,064 | #3 of 20 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.5% | #434 of 664 | #9 of 14 |
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
273
-17 (-6%) vs 2020
-11% since 1990-91, when it was 307
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 11.6:1
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 | 273 | 24.1 | 11.3:1 | 70% (191) |
| 2023-24 | 282 | 27.1 | 10.4:1 | 62% (176) |
| 2022-23 | 302 | 26.1 | 11.6:1 | 73% (221) |
| 2020-21 | 290 | 25 | 11.6:1 | 76% (221) |
| 2017-18 | 305 | 25 | 12.2:1 | 76% (233) |
| 2015-16 | 383 | 26 | 14.7:1 | 60% (231) |
| 2010-11 | 411 | 22 | 18.7:1 | 77% (318) |
| 2000-01 | 290 | 18 | 16.1:1 | 21% (61) |
| 1990-91 | 307 | 17 | 18.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverside Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 10% (305 to 273); teachers down 4% (25 to 24.1).
About Riverside Elementary
In Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, part of Fond du Lac County, Riverside Elementary is an elementary school. It serves 273 students in pre-K through 5.
Riverside Elementary is one school in a 15-school district, Fond du Lac School District, which enrolls 6,457 students.
White students are the largest group at Riverside Elementary, with 45% of enrollment. Other reported shares: 32% Hispanic, 13% multiracial, and 10% Black. Fond du Lac County's residents are about 88% White, 43 points above the school's share. The chance that two students picked at random at Riverside Elementary belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 67%.
At Riverside Elementary, 24.1 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 11.3:1. For comparison, elementary schools in Wisconsin average 14.7:1. Roughly 70% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price lunch. The 41% average for public schools in Fond du Lac County is 29 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Riverside Elementary is B-. Compared with Wisconsin public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 50% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
Riverside Elementary posts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 46.8%, compared with a predicted 34.7%. It is not in the top or bottom 10% of Wisconsin schools on BeatsExpectations.
Among Fond du Lac County residents, median household income is about $74,275, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of people live in poverty. Federal data list 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County, with a combined enrollment of about 13,230.
Fond du Lac STEM Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among its closest neighbors with test data, Riverside Elementary is 6th of 8 on proficiency.
NCES assigns Riverside Elementary the locale City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Riverside Elementary had 290 students in 2020-21 and 273 in 2024-25, a 6% decrease.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Fond du Lac County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
104,137
Census ACS
Median income
$74,275
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
22%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
42
13,230 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Fond du Lac School District
- Fond du Lac HighHigh · 1,917 students
- Sabish MiddleMiddle · 445 students
- Theisen MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Woodworth MiddleMiddle · 413 students
- Waters ElementaryElementary · 389 students
- Lakeshore ElementaryElementary · 354 students
Other schools in Fond du Lac
- Fond du Lac HighHigh · 1,917 students
- Sabish MiddleMiddle · 445 students
- Theisen MiddleMiddle · 431 students
- Woodworth MiddleMiddle · 413 students
- Waters ElementaryElementary · 389 students
- Lakeshore ElementaryElementary · 354 students
Other Riverside Elementary schools
43 other US public schools in 25 states are named Riverside Elementary. Riverside Elementary is the 38th largest of the 44.
- Riverside ElementaryRingle, WI · 487 students
- Riverside ElementaryMenomonee Falls, WI · 455 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLCRESTVIEW, FL · 1,032 students
- Riverside Elementary SchoolSuwanee, GA · 919 students
- RIVERSIDE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLMIAMI, FL · 842 students
Nearby schools
- Fond du Lac STEM Academy0.4 mi · 162
- Waters Elementary0.7 mi · 389
- Chegwin Elementary1.0 mi · 296
- Pier Elementary1.0 mi · 274
- Roberts Elementary1.1 mi · 317
- Early Learning in Fond du Lac1.2 mi · 231
Frequently asked questions
About Riverside ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Riverside Elementary?
Riverside Elementary enrolls approximately 273 students in grades PK-05.
Is Riverside Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Riverside Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Riverside Elementary have?
Riverside Elementary employs 24 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
How diverse is Riverside Elementary?
Riverside Elementary reports a student body of 45% White, 32% Hispanic, 10% Black, 1% Asian, 13% Two or more.
What district is Riverside Elementary in?
Riverside Elementary is part of Fond du Lac School District.
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