Public school / Primary
Riverdale
Dedham, Massachusetts
- NCES ID
- 250405000554
- District
- Dedham
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
Riverdale is a public primary school in Dedham, Massachusetts, run by Dedham. It enrols 174 students — the 80601st largest of 1,862 public schools in Massachusetts.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
174
Teachers
18.0
Students per teacher
9.7
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Within Dedham
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1Dedham High715 students
- 2Dedham Middle School540 students
- 3Early Childhood Center307 students
- 4Avery297 students
- 5Greenlodge277 students
- 6Oakdale245 students
- 7Riverdale174 students
- Enrollment−61.6%
- Teachers−48.6%
- Students per teacher−18.5%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory