Riverside Unified
Riverside, CA · 48 schools · 39,380 students
Largest Schools
Schools ranked by enrollment. Proficiency data from EDFacts where available.
Frequently Asked Questions
Riverside Unified has 48 schools serving 39,380 students. The average proficiency rate across the district is 40%. The average graduation rate is 71%.
Riverside Unified operates 48 public schools, including Martin Luther King Jr. High, Polytechnic High, Ramona High, John W. North High, Arlington High and others. The full school list is shown above with enrollment and grade-level details.
The average graduation rate across high schools in Riverside Unified is approximately 71% (EDFacts district-level data, most recent reporting year). Individual school graduation rates may vary; this is a district-wide adjusted-cohort graduation rate.
The largest school in Riverside Unified is Martin Luther King Jr. High with 2,901 students.
Riverside Unified serves 39,380 students across 48 schools in CA, per the latest NCES Common Core of Data enrollment.
Riverside Unified's average proficiency rate of 40% (math and reading combined, EDFacts) is around average for US public school districts. "Good" depends on what you value — proficiency is one signal; enrollment trends, class size, graduation rates, and district resources also matter. Check individual school pages for granular data.
Student-teacher ratios are reported at the school level by NCES, not aggregated at the district level in our dataset. Open any individual school page in Riverside Unified to see its specific student-teacher ratio. The US national average is approximately 16:1 for public schools.
All data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data (enrollment, school count, demographics) and EDFacts assessment results (proficiency rates, graduation rates). Proficiency and graduation rates are reported at the district level. Both are federal sources used by the US Department of Education.
School performance data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments.
For Riverside Unified, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for Riverside Unified’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.