Summary:
Zip code 72419 is home to a single school, Riverside East Elementary School, a small rural school serving grades PK through 6 with 147 students in the Riverside School District.
Riverside East Elementary School presents a mixed picture for parents. On one hand, the school has a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13:1 and spends a substantial $14,355 per student. However, academic performance is below state averages in most subjects, with a notable exception in 5th grade English Language Arts, where 50% of students were proficient—outperforming both the district and state. The school's state ranking has declined from the 44th percentile to the 30th percentile over the past year, and proficiency rates in English and Reading have dropped significantly. A critical challenge is mathematics, where the school's overall proficiency rate of 27.9% is 16.2 percentage points below the state average, with 4th graders showing the largest gap at just 10.5% proficiency compared to 47% statewide.
The school serves a high-needs population, with 73.47% of students eligible for free or reduced lunch. While the Riverside School District ranks in the 50th percentile statewide, Riverside East Elementary lags behind its own district in literacy but slightly outperforms it in mathematics. The school's strong resources and small class sizes have not translated into above-average test scores, suggesting that targeted interventions—especially in early-grade literacy and math—may be needed to address the performance gaps and reverse the recent downward trend.
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