Riverview Elementary

As a mid-sized K-5 school in Wausau, Wisconsin, Riverview Elementary instructs 445 students from grades pre-K through 5, overseen by Wausau School District. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Riverview Elementary sits 38% larger than that benchmark.

Wausau School District runs 21 schools in total, collectively educating 7,738 students. Riverview Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Riverview Elementary logs that the largest single group is White, at 71% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 17% Asian, 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 87% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Riverview Elementary shows 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.4:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 44% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Riverview Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 50.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 47.1%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Marathon County put median household earnings sit near $77,884, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Marathon County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 18,592 students), of which Riverview Elementary is one.

Nearest neighbor: Wausau Area Montessori Charter School, around 1.4 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Riverview Elementary. On composite proficiency, Riverview Elementary comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.2%.

Riverview Elementary operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Riverview Elementary's enrollment has shrank 11% since 2018, when it stood at 498 (now 445).

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