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Does Riverview Elementary have enough mental health and stress support?
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Enrollment
449
Elementary
STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SILVER LAKE J1 SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551386001815
Riverview Elementary
300 Prosser St, Silver Lake, WI 53170 · (262) 889-4384 · Kenosha County
GRADES PK–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL449 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 66% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats 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
14.9:1
30 FTE teachers
STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
33%
147 students
STATE 42%
Community
1
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 | 43 | 10% |
| Kindergarten | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 41 | 9% |
| Grade 2 | 44 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 8% |
| Grade 4 | 54 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 42 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 45 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 48 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 13% smaller than its 8th grade class (52).
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
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
64.3%
WI avg 53.1% . +1.0pp since 2023
Math
53.5%
WI avg 54.8% . -15.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 64 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 down about 15 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.3% | 53.5% |
| 2023-24 | 63.3% | 68.5% |
% 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
64.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.6%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 64% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% 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 Riverview Elementary
Riverview Elementary's state test result (64.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview Elementary this school | 449 | 32.7% | 64.2% |
| Columbus Elementary Columbus | 425 | 34.8% | 57.0% |
| Washington Elementary Stevens Point | 443 | 33.6% | 53.1% |
| Shiocton Elementary Shiocton | 517 | 30.4% | 63.9% |
| Valders Elementary Valders | 411 | 29.2% | 43.7% |
| Rossman Elementary Hartford | 422 | 29.6% | 75.5% |
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 Riverview Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Kenosha County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.2% | #314 of 982 | #6 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 53.5% | #531 of 992 ▼ 267 | #17 of 34 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.3% | #251 of 992 ▲ 43 | #4 of 34 ▲ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 449 | #238 of 1,157 | #16 of 36 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.9:1 | #677 of 901 | #26 of 33 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 28.6% | #596 of 901 | #27 of 33 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.7% | #695 of 1,064 | #26 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.5% | #539 of 664 | #9 of 15 |
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
449
-20 (-4%) vs 2020
-2% since 1990-91, when it was 460
Student : Teacher
14.9:1
was 13.8:1
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 | 449 | 30.2 | 14.9:1 | 33% (147) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 29.4 | 14.6:1 | 36% (153) |
| 2022-23 | 438 | 33.3 | 13.1:1 | 35% (154) |
| 2020-21 | 469 | 34 | 13.8:1 | 39% (181) |
| 2017-18 | 480 | 34.4 | 13.9:1 | 33% (156) |
| 2015-16 | 520 | 32 | 16.3:1 | 41% (213) |
| 2010-11 | 544 | 34 | 16.0:1 | 41% (222) |
| 2000-01 | 603 | 41 | 14.7:1 | 17% (102) |
| 1990-91 | 460 | 22 | 20.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Riverview Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (480 to 449); teachers down 12% (34.4 to 30.2).
About Riverview Elementary
Riverview Elementary is an elementary school in Silver Lake, Wisconsin, reachable at (262) 889-4384. The school covers pre-K through 8 and reported 449 students in 2024-25. On average, elementary schools in Wisconsin enroll around 323, and this school is 39% bigger than that mark.
Riverview Elementary is part of Silver Lake J1 School District.
White students are 84% of those enrolled at Riverview Elementary. The rest of enrollment is 10% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census estimates put the White share of Kenosha County's population at about 75%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 29%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at Riverview Elementary is 14.9:1, based on 30.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is about 14.7:1. Riverview Elementary counts 33% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 48% for public schools in Kenosha County.
On the allk12 Grade, Riverview Elementary lands at B+, ahead of 66% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Riverview Elementary's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 64.2% is 6.6 points above the 57.6% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Kenosha County, the median household earns about $81,239 a year, about 31% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Across Kenosha County, 56 public schools serve about 27,114 students.
A public school about 2.7 miles away, Wilmot High, is the closest to Riverview Elementary. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Among 6 nearby schools that report test results, Riverview Elementary ranks 1st on proficiency.
Under the NCES locale system, Riverview Elementary is Suburb: Large.
From 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell from 469 to 449, a 4% drop. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 13.8:1 to 14.9:1.
People who know Riverview Elementary can post here about homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Kenosha County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
168,438
Census ACS
Median income
$81,239
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
31%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
56
27,114 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other Riverview Elementary schools
29 other US public schools in 19 states are named Riverview Elementary. Riverview Elementary is the 14th largest of the 30.
- Riverview ElementaryWausau, WI · 445 students
- Riverview ElementaryWautoma, WI · 302 students
- Riverview ElementaryManitowoc, WI · 257 students
- Riverview ElementaryFort Mill, SC · 711 students
- Riverview ElementaryFresno, CA · 700 students
Nearby schools
- Wilmot High2.7 mi · 840
- Salem Elementary3.0 mi · 936
- Central High3.3 mi · 1,309
- Trevor-Wilmot Grade3.7 mi · 455
- Lakewood Elementary4.4 mi · 263
- Learning by Design Academy4.4 mi · 4
Frequently asked questions
About Riverview ElementaryHow large is Riverview Elementary?
Riverview Elementary enrolls approximately 449 students in grades PK-08.
What grades does Riverview Elementary serve?
Riverview Elementary serves grades PK-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Riverview Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Riverview Elementary is approximately 14.9:1 (30 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Riverview Elementary?
Riverview Elementary reports a student body of 84% White, 10% Hispanic, 0% Black, 1% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is Riverview Elementary public or private?
Riverview Elementary is a public K-12 school, overseen by Silver Lake J1 School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.