Riverside School District

Listed by NCES as Riverside Elementary District (4257) (district ID 0407020)

Public school district · Maricopa County · Arizona · NCES district ID 0407020

Riverside School District spent $12,539 per student on current operations in fiscal year 2022-23, more than 56% of the other Arizona districts with fewer than 1,000 students in fall 2022 (median $11,993). Its 4 schools enrolled 804 students in 2024-25; 4.1% of its revenue came from the state. Census Bureau figures for 2023-24 put it at $14,358 per student, up 15.6% on the year before (U.S. $17,619 that year).

NCES F-33 finance survey, fiscal year 2022-23 · Census Bureau school finances 2023-24 · NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 · method

Spending per student among Arizona districts of similar size

Current spending per student excludes construction and debt. The 9 districts closest to Riverside in enrollment (804 to 840 students) and Riverside itself.

Current spending per student, Arizona districts closest in size to Riverside, FY23Riverside $12,539; Arizona School For The Arts (4345) $10,200; Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix (91758) $9,978; The Paideia Academies Inc (91250) $9,721; E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059) $9,378; Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637) $9,175; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361) $8,842; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949) $8,576; Grande Innovation Academy $8,521; Horizon Community Learning Center Inc. (92620) $8,185; State median, under 1,000 students $11,993.6k8k10k12k14kRiverside$12,539Arizona School For The Arts (4…$10,200Archway Classical Academy Nort…$9,978The Paideia Academies Inc (912…$9,721E-Institute Charter Schools In…$9,378Leading Edge Academy Maricopa …$9,175BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (63…$8,842BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91…$8,576Grande Innovation Academy$8,521Horizon Community Learning Cen…$8,185State median, under 1,000 students $11,993
Current spending per student, Arizona districts closest in size to Riverside, FY23Riverside $12,539; Arizona School For The Arts (4345) $10,200; Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix (91758) $9,978; The Paideia Academies Inc (91250) $9,721; E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059) $9,378; Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637) $9,175; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361) $8,842; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949) $8,576; Grande Innovation Academy $8,521; Horizon Community Learning Center Inc. (92620) $8,185; State median, under 1,000 students $11,993.6k8k10k12k14kRiverside$12,539Arizona School For The Arts (4345)$10,200Archway Classical Academy North Pho…$9,978The Paideia Academies Inc (91250)$9,721E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (7…$9,378Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (9063…$9,175BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361)$8,842BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949)$8,576Grande Innovation Academy$8,521Horizon Community Learning Center I…$8,185State median, under 1,000 students $11,993
Current spending per student, Arizona districts closest in size to Riverside, FY23Riverside $12,539; Arizona School For The Arts (4345) $10,200; Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix (91758) $9,978; The Paideia Academies Inc (91250) $9,721; E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059) $9,378; Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637) $9,175; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361) $8,842; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949) $8,576; Grande Innovation Academy $8,521; Horizon Community Learning Center Inc. (92620) $8,185; State median, under 1,000 students $11,993.6k10k14kRiverside$12,539Arizona School For The Arts (4345)$10,200Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix (91…$9,978The Paideia Academies Inc (91250)$9,721E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059)$9,378Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637)$9,175BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361)$8,842BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949)$8,576Grande Innovation Academy$8,521Horizon Community Learning Center Inc. (926…$8,185State median, under 1,000 students $11,993
Current spending per student, Arizona districts closest in size to Riverside, FY23Riverside $12,539; Arizona School For The Arts (4345) $10,200; Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix (91758) $9,978; The Paideia Academies Inc (91250) $9,721; E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059) $9,378; Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637) $9,175; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361) $8,842; BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949) $8,576; Grande Innovation Academy $8,521; Horizon Community Learning Center Inc. (92620) $8,185; State median, under 1,000 students $11,993.6k10k14kRiverside$12,539Arizona School For The Arts (4345)$10,200Archway Classical Academy North Phoenix…$9,978The Paideia Academies Inc (91250)$9,721E-Institute Charter Schools Inc. (79059)$9,378Leading Edge Academy Maricopa (90637)$9,175BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (6361)$8,842BASIS Charter Schools Inc. (91949)$8,576Grande Innovation Academy$8,521Horizon Community Learning Center Inc.…$8,185State median, under 1,000 students $11,993

Where the money came from

$23,189,000 in revenue: 4.1% state, 83.4% local and 12.5% federal. Total spending including $4,173,000 of capital outlay was $17,044,000, or $20,939 per student; the figure above leaves capital out.

Riverside School District revenue by source, fiscal year 2022-23State $948,000; Local $19,348,000; Federal $2,893,000; total $23,189,000.
  • State$948,000 4%
  • Local$19,348,000 83%
  • Federal$2,893,000 12%

Source: NCES F-33 school district finance survey, fiscal year 2022-23: current expenditures for elementary and secondary education divided by fall membership; the state median covers 475 districts with fewer than 1,000 students in fall 2022. Revenue by source (TOTALREV, TFEDREV, TSTREV, TLOCREV).

Enrollment fell from 2022-23 to 2024-25

822 students in 2022-23, 813 students in 2023-24, 799 students in 2024-25, counted across the schools that reported each year.

Riverside School District enrollment by school year2022-23: 822, 2023-24: 813, 2024-25: 79902505007501k2022-238222023-248132024-25799
Riverside School District enrollment by school year2022-23: 822, 2023-24: 813, 2024-25: 79902505007501k2022-238222023-248132024-25799
Riverside School District enrollment by school year2022-23: 822, 2023-24: 813, 2024-25: 79902505007501k2022-238222023-248132024-25799
Riverside School District enrollment by school year2022-23: 822, 2023-24: 813, 2024-25: 79902505007501k2022-238222023-248132024-25799

Teachers and students per teacher

School yearStudentsTeachers (FTE)Per teacher
2022-2382241.020.0
2023-2481342.019.4
2024-2579942.019.0

Source: NCES Common Core of Data membership and staff files, 2022-23, 2023-24, 2024-25; sums over the schools reporting each year.

$2,253,000 in teacher salaries in fiscal year 2022-23, $2,768 per student

Riverside School District booked $2,253,000 of teacher salaries in its 2022-23 finance report and counted 41 full-time teachers in its Common Core of Data district staff file for 2022-23 (the school files behind the staffing figures on this page count teachers separately, so the two can differ), or $54,951 of salary spending per teacher. That is more than 12 in 100 Arizona districts with a figure (state median $62,248, 172 districts). It is spending, not what a teacher is paid: the salary lines and the teacher count come from different files, so the result can differ widely from the average salary the district publishes (its salary schedule gives pay); benefits are left out, and states book salaries differently, so compare districts within one state. For pay, the National Education Association put the average Arizona teacher salary at $54,580 in 2021-22 (NCES Digest table 211.60).

ProgramTeacher salariesShare
Regular programs$1,807,00080.2%
Special education$339,00015.0%
Other programs$107,0004.7%

Teacher salaries per student, fiscal years 2018-19 to 2022-23

The district's teacher salary bill divided by its fall enrollment each year: $2,180 in 2018-19, $2,336 in 2019-20, $3,192 in 2020-21, $2,400 in 2021-22, $2,768 in 2022-23.

Riverside School District teacher salaries per student by fiscal year2018-19: $2,180, 2019-20: $2,336, 2020-21: $3,192, 2021-22: $2,400, 2022-23: $2,76801k2k3k4k2018-19$2,1802019-20$2,3362020-21$3,1922021-22$2,4002022-23$2,768
Riverside School District teacher salaries per student by fiscal year2018-19: $2,180, 2019-20: $2,336, 2020-21: $3,192, 2021-22: $2,400, 2022-23: $2,76801k2k3k4k2018-19$2,1802019-20$2,3362020-21$3,1922021-22$2,4002022-23$2,768
Riverside School District teacher salaries per student by fiscal year2018-19: $2,180, 2019-20: $2,336, 2020-21: $3,192, 2021-22: $2,400, 2022-23: $2,76801k2k3k4k2018-19$2,1802019-20$2,3362020-21$3,1922021-22$2,4002022-23$2,768
Riverside School District teacher salaries per student by fiscal year2018-19: $2,180, 2019-20: $2,336, 2020-21: $3,192, 2021-22: $2,400, 2022-23: $2,76801k2k3k4k2018-19$2,1802019-20$2,3362020-21$3,1922021-22$2,4002022-23$2,768

Source: NCES F-33 school district finance survey, fiscal years 2019 to 2023: teacher salaries in regular, special, vocational and other programs (Z35 to Z38) and fall membership (V33); NCES Common Core of Data LEA staff file 2022-23, teachers (full-time equivalent).

State test results, 2021-22

In 2021-22, the students tested in Riverside School District scored proficient or above: 31% in reading and 19% in math, against 40.4% in reading and 34.8% in math across Arizona. Each state writes its own test and sets its own proficiency bar, so compare these within Arizona, not across states.

Students proficient or above, 2021-22
SubjectThis districtArizonaStudents tested
Reading and language arts31%40.4%587
Math19%34.8%589

Source: U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts state assessment results 2021-22, all students, from ED Data Express (the Data Rescue Project archive; ED has no 2022-23 result for this district): ED shows district results as ranges (for example 20-24%) to protect small groups.

2 elementary schools, 386 students

SchoolStudentsPer teacherFree lunchTitle I, 2021‑22
Riverside Traditional School38118.171.0%Schoolwide program
Riverside Elementary School District (RESD) STEM2 Online School5not reportednot reportedNot Title I

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25; Title I status CCD 2021-22, the last year NCES published it. All free (CEP): every student eats free under the Community Eligibility Provision, so the school reports no free-lunch count; not reported: the school sent NCES no meal count.

2 middle schools, 418 students

SchoolStudentsPer teacherFree lunchTitle I, 2021‑22
Kings Ridge School37118.670.0%Schoolwide program
Maricopa Institute of Technology (MIT)4747.047.4%Not Title I

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25; Title I status CCD 2021-22, the last year NCES published it. All free (CEP): every student eats free under the Community Eligibility Provision, so the school reports no free-lunch count; not reported: the school sent NCES no meal count.

Contact Riverside School District

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, local education agency directory 2024-25. Enrollment, boundaries and school assignment are the district's to confirm.

What to look at next about Riverside School District

  1. Arizona districts by spending per studentRiverside School District ranks 211 of 475 Arizona districts with fewer than 1,000 students in fall 2022 on current spending per student in fiscal year 2022-23 ($12,539).#211 of 475
  2. Every school district in ArizonaRiverside School District is the number 178 by size of 661 Arizona districts, with 822 students in fall 2022 (F-33).#178 of 661
  3. Grande Innovation AcademyThe next larger Arizona district: 829 students in fall 2022, $8,521 per student in fiscal year 2022-23.$8,521
  4. The Paideia Academies Inc (91250)The next smaller Arizona district: 821 students in fall 2022, $9,721 per student in fiscal year 2022-23.$9,721
  5. Compare Riverside School District with Grande Innovation AcademyEnrollment, spending, revenue sources and schools, side by side.
  6. Teacher salary spending across ArizonaRiverside School District spent $54,951 in salaries per full-time teacher in fiscal year 2022-23 (state median $62,248); spending, not a salary.$54,951
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Source: NCES F-33 finance survey, fiscal year 2022-23 (spending per student and fall 2022 membership; ranks among the state's districts that reported them); NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 (schools).

Questions about Riverside School District

  1. How many schools and students are in Riverside School District?
    4 schools were open in 2024-25 (2 elementary, 2 middle), enrolling 804 students, according to the NCES Common Core of Data.
  2. How much does Riverside School District spend per student?
    $12,539 per student on current operations in fiscal year 2022-23 (NCES F-33), which leaves out construction and debt; the Arizona median for districts with fewer than 1,000 students in fall 2022 is $11,993 and the U.S. figure is $16,260. Census Bureau figures for 2023-24 put it at $14,358 per student, up 15.6% on the year before (U.S. $17,619 that year).
  3. Where does Riverside School District's money come from?
    $23,189,000 in revenue in fiscal year 2022-23: 4.1% state, 83.4% local and 12.5% federal (NCES F-33).
  4. How many children in Riverside School District live in poverty?
    The Census Bureau estimates that 251 of the 1,338 children aged 5 to 17 living within the district's boundaries in 2024, 18.8%, were in families in poverty (Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates). It is a model-based estimate for everyone living in the district, not a count of its students; the free-meal shares in the school tables are counts of enrolled students.
  5. How much does Riverside School District spend on teacher salaries?
    $2,253,000 in fiscal year 2022-23 (NCES F-33), or $2,768 per student. Divided by the 41 full-time teachers in the NCES Common Core of Data for 2022-23 that is $54,951 per teacher, more than 12 in 100 Arizona districts (state median $62,248). That is spending, not what a teacher is paid: the salary lines and the teacher count come from different files, and the result can differ widely from the average salary a district publishes. The district's salary schedule gives pay. For pay, the National Education Association put the average Arizona teacher salary at $54,580 in 2021-22 (NCES Digest table 211.60).
  6. How do students in Riverside School District do on state tests?
    In 2021-22, the students tested in Riverside School District scored proficient or above: 31% in reading and 19% in math, against 40.4% in reading and 34.8% in math across Arizona. Arizona's own test sets what proficient means, so results compare within the state, not across states. Source: U.S. Department of Education, EDFacts state assessment results, 2021-22.
  7. What is Riverside School District's NCES district ID?
    0407020. Each of its schools' 12-digit NCES IDs begins with these seven digits.

Reading these figures: how to choose a school district, what Title I means and what an absenteeism rate means. They are for information and are not a substitute for the school's or district's own records.

Sources

Every federal file behind this record
  • NCES Common Core of Data, 2024-25: directory, membership, staff and lunch files. nces.ed.gov
  • NCES Common Core of Data, 2021-22 school characteristics: Title I status. nces.ed.gov
  • Civil Rights Data Collection, 2021-22: AP courses, gifted programs, counselors, discipline. civilrightsdata.ed.gov
  • EDFacts, 2022-23: chronic absenteeism. ed.gov
  • EDFacts state assessment results, 2021-22: reading and math proficiency for the district and its state (ED Data Express). eddataexpress.ed.gov
  • NCES Digest of Education Statistics, table 211.60 (2021-22): the state's average teacher salary, from the National Education Association. nces.ed.gov
  • U.S. Census Bureau, Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates, 2024: children aged 5 to 17 and those in families in poverty, by school district. census.gov
  • U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances, fiscal year 2023-24: per pupil current spending for 2023-24 and 2022-23. census.gov
  • NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, fiscal year 2022-23: district spending and revenue. nces.ed.gov
  • U.S. Census Bureau geocoder and TIGER school districts: the district boundary used by the district finder. census.gov

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances Per pupil current spending by school system · FY 2023-24

Source: NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey Revenue and expenditures by district · FY 2022-23

Source: NCES Common Core of Data School directory, membership, staff and lunch files · 2024-25

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