NCES CCD 2024-25 11 schools UT

Best-Resourced Schools in Riverton, UT

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11 public K-12 schools in Riverton from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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11
Schools
10,863
Students
27.1/100
Avg Resource Index
20.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Lean reported-resource profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Riverton has more public-school enrollment than 82% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Riverton's average Resource Investment Index falls in the lower portion of the 4,487-city comparison set. The index is a resource snapshot, not an academic grade: it reflects the federal staffing, counselor, gifted-program, and attendance fields available for local campuses. The most useful next step is to open the individual schools below and identify which component is pulling each score down, because the same city average can hide very different campus-level constraints.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

6 of Riverton's 11 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 0 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

Campus spread matters more than the city mean

The 24-point gap between Oquirrh Hills Middle and Rose Creek School shows the range hidden by Riverton's average Resource Investment Index. The city figure is useful for national placement, but families ultimately choose among campuses with different grade spans, enrollment, district affiliations, and reported support fields. Start with schools serving the relevant grade level, then compare the index components rather than assuming the city average describes any one classroom.

City enrollment
Top 18%
School count
Top 35%
Resource Index average
7th percentile
Teacher staffing
14th percentile

Riverton High accounts for 21.1% of all Riverton public-school enrollment

That concentration means Riverton-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Riverton school enrollment varies 8.0× across entities

Riverton school enrollment ranges from 286 students (lowest) to 2,295 students (highest), a spread of 2,009 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous school portfolio for a city this size. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Riverton operates one school district — a single-district system

Riverton's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Riverton student-teacher ratio is 20.3:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Oquirrh Hills Middle 43
2. Preschool 30
3. South Hills Middle 30
4. Kauri Sue Hamilton 29
5. Riverton High 28
6. Riverton School 27
7. Foothills School 23
8. Midas Creek School 23
9. Southland School 23
10. Rosamond School 23
11. Rose Creek School 19

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Riverton

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Preschool 55.3/100
  2. 2 Kauri Sue Hamilton 53.5/100
  3. 3 South Hills Middle 48.4/100
  4. 4 Foothills School 44.9/100
  5. 5 Riverton School 40.0/100

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Which Riverton school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Oquirrh Hills Middle has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Riverton schools in this federal-data comparison at 43/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Riverton, UT? ▼

Riverton has 11 public schools with a total enrollment of 10,863 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.