Riverview Gardens Senior High School

Size

Riverview Gardens Senior High School is the only high school in Riverview Gardens School District. Its 1,246 students are 24.4% of the district's 5,116. Its 8 closest high schools sit a median 4.9 miles away with a median enrollment of 77; Riverview Gardens Senior High School is larger than most of them.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 enrollment and school type. Share of district students = this school's students ÷ the district's students. Nearest schools by straight-line distance between NCES EDGE locations.

Grades

Its largest grade is grade 10 with 330 students, and its smallest is grade 12 with 296, against an average of 312 per grade. Its first and last grades are close in size: 321 in grade 9 and 296 in grade 12.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership by grade.

Students

The largest group is Black students: 96.7% here and 96.6% across Riverview Gardens. Students from 5 of the 7 race and ethnicity groups NCES reports are enrolled.

53.3% of its students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, against 59.4% across Riverview Gardens and a median of 46.2% for Missouri high schools. 47.8% are directly certified for free meals, meaning their families take part in programs such as SNAP or TANF, so no application was needed. Under the Community Eligibility Provision, every student can eat breakfast and lunch at no charge, and families fill out no meal application.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25 membership and school lunch program data. District shares weight each school by its enrollment.

Teachers

With 78.08 full-time-equivalent teachers for 1,246 students, Riverview Gardens Senior High School has 16 students per teacher. At the median Missouri high school ratio of 12.2, a school with 1,246 students would have about 102.1 teachers, so Riverview Gardens Senior High School has 24 fewer.

Source: NCES CCD 2024-25. Expected teachers = this school's students ÷ the median students per teacher of Missouri high schools (12.2).

Location

Riverview Gardens Senior High School is in an urbanized area of 250,000 people or more, outside its principal city, which NCES calls suburb, large. The nearest other high school is Hazelwood East High School, 1.9 miles away in Hazelwood School District. Within 10 miles there are 29 other high schools, 4 of them within 5 miles.

Source: NCES EDGE school locations and locale codes, 2024-25. Distances are straight lines.