Riverview Middle

Riverview Middle, a cozy middle-grades school in Barron, Wisconsin, overseen by Barron Area School District, serves 282 students, covering grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 26% leaner than typical.

Barron Area School District runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,073 students. Riverview Middle is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Riverview Middle records that 68% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school shows 13% Hispanic, 11% Black, 5% multiracial. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 92%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.9:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 56% of students at Riverview Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Barron County (around 41%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverview Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.5%, the actual is 44.4%, a residual of +0.9 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Barron County indicate the typical household earns roughly $65,933 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Riverview Middle is one of 36 public schools in Barron County (combined enrollment of about 7,199 students).

The closest other public school is Woodland Elementary, roughly 0.9 miles away. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Riverview Middle comes 6th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.7%.

The campus sits in an outlying setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Riverview Middle has shrank 22%, going from 361 students in 2018 to 282 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 79% to 68% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 today.

Within the allk12 community for this school, the feed for Riverview Middle typically covers open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.