Riverside High

Riverside High is a 9-12 campus of heavily attended scale in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Milwaukee School District, enrolling 1,240 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 161% larger than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 475 students.

Within Milwaukee School District, which oversees 155 schools and 65,835 students, Riverside High is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Riverside High lists that Black students make up the majority at 67%. Beyond that, the school logs 20% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 3% multiracial, 3% White. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the resource side, On paper, Riverside High has 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.6:1. The state averages around 14.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 77% of students at Riverside High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Milwaukee County's rate of about 64%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Riverside High is in the bottom 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 30.6%; Riverside High posts 14.6%, -15.9 points below that line.

In the broader community, census data for Milwaukee County shows median household income runs about $64,435, 35% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. In all, Milwaukee County runs 284 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,496 students), of which Riverside High is one.

Nearest neighbor: Gaenslen Elementary, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Riverside High ranks 5th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 26.2%.

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverside High has shrank 18%, going from 1,512 students in 2018 to 1,240 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Riverside High typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.