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Riverview Middle
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Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedWhat this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 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 5 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 59% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 60% 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%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Riverview Middle
Riverview Middle is one of the medium-sized intermediate schools in Plymouth, Wisconsin, part of Plymouth Joint School District, with 555 students on its rolls from grades 5 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 381 students per school, that is 46% bigger than typical.
Riverview Middle is one of 5 schools operated by Plymouth Joint School District, a district that teaches 2,000 students overall.
Demographically, Riverview Middle logs that 87% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest consists of 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.
On the income-and-resources front, The school reports having 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.5:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 29% of students at Riverview Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Sheboygan County (around 45%), the school's rate is south of typical.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Riverview Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 59.7%; this one delivers 59.1%.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Sheboygan County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,094 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Sheboygan County runs 52 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,340 students), of which Riverview Middle is one.
Nearest neighbor: Parkview Elementary, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 4 other public schools cluster around Riverview Middle. On composite proficiency, Riverview Middle comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 61.1%.
Riverview Middle operates from a small-town location.
Looking at the recent track record. Riverview Middle's enrollment has contracted 10% since 2018, when it stood at 614 (now 555). Class-load math has fell: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.
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