Riverside Virtual: The score is strong. The trajectory is stronger.
Riverside Virtual pairs 48% proficiency with gains that hold up when the same students are tracked two years apart — the rare school that posts both.
| Scope | % Exceeded | % Met+ | Growth | Absence | Suspension | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| This school | 61 | 21% | 48% | +7.1 | 9.0% | 0.2% |
| CA average · Elementary School | 45 | 21% | 43% | -2.9 | 17.9% | 1.6% |
Riverside Virtual scores 61 of 100 on SchoolScope's Scope Score — the 83rd percentile of 5,744 California elementary schools (CDE CAASPP 2025).
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Most rating sites would stop at “48% proficient” and call it done. Riverside Virtual deserves a closer read. The school sits in Riverside, where four in five students qualify for free or reduced lunch — and reading the numbers without that context misreads the school.
Riverside Virtual's low-income kids hit 53.1% proficiency in ELA — a number the same group reaches at 38.2% statewide. If you're trying to read past zip-code-driven test scores, that's the signal worth weighing.
The seven-year arc
Climbed from the 58th to the 83rd percentile since 2022 — past roughly 1500 elementary schools.
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | 32% | 35% | 37% | 41% |
| Grade 4 | — | 39% | 44% | 49% | 47% |
| Grade 5 | — | 44% | 44% | 37% | 71% |
| Grade 6 | — | 45% | 40% | 48% | 49% |
| Grade 7 | 57% | 41% | 48% | 40% | 60% |
| Grade 8 | 78% | 45% | 42% | 40% | 52% |
| Grade 11 | 70% | 46% | 61% | 51% | 54% |
| Grade | 2019 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | — | 34% | 34% | 39% | 56% |
| Grade 4 | — | 27% | 32% | 37% | 36% |
| Grade 5 | — | 24% | 28% | 14% | 39% |
| Grade 6 | — | 24% | 24% | 28% | 24% |
| Grade 7 | 50% | 23% | 27% | 34% | 55% |
| Grade 8 | 43% | 18% | 20% | 25% | 42% |
| Grade 11 | 5% | 16% | 19% | 16% | 47% |
The story this school is actually telling
The school, grade by grade
ELA · CAASPP 2024–25Different students, same year — each bar is one grade's proficiency mix.
The honest read: the share exceeding rises 12.0pp across grades; the floor rises 30.3pp. The state average rises 4.5pp over the same span. Kids here gain ground the longer they stay — the pattern you want to see. A school visit and conversation with teachers will tell you more than this number.
Riverside Virtual's most underrated number
53.1% of low-income students met the ELA standard — versus 38.2% for the same group statewide. That's the strongest kind of signal a school can post: it holds across income lines.
The 6 things our score weighs
Ask what changed — new curriculum, new principal, new program. Momentum has a cause, and a visit will find it.
- Ask how teachers track each child's growth over the year, not just where the class lands on test day.
- Ask whether extra support — tutoring, counseling, small groups — reaches kids across income lines, not just the students already ahead.
- Ask whether the tour can step into a working classroom — watch how the teacher handles a student who's stuck.
- Ask to tour while school's in session, and notice how hallways and transitions feel — culture shows up between classes, not just in them.
- Ask how the school communicates with families when a child starts to struggle.
- Ask what a typical day looks like for a new student in the first few weeks.
How every group of students does here
At Riverside Virtual in Riverside, 53.1% of low-income students met or exceeded the ELA standard in 2025, compared to 40.8% district-wide and 38.2% statewide. Riverside Virtual outperforms its district average for low-income students by 12.3 percentage points in ELA. Other subgroups: Low-Income students (41.3% Math proficient); Hispanic students (53.3% ELA proficient). The largest proficiency gap is 39.1 percentage points for disabilities students. Data source: California Department of Education, CAASPP 2024-25. 258 students tested.
9 of 16 student groups here are too small to report — a privacy protection, not a gap.
Change in proficiency from the lowest tested grade — which groups gain ground the longer they stay. Groups with fewer than 10 tested students per grade are not shown.
Low-income student ELA proficiency rises by 29.8pp from grade 3 to grade 5 at this school. District average: +4.3pp.
Showing up, and staying in class
Where the path goes
Riverside Virtual serves grades K-12 — students can complete their entire K-12 education here, with no school-to-school transitions.
The people teaching here
Pay is set by the district, not the school.
What gets spent here
$1,663 per student arrives as federal Title funding — a measure of concentrated need, not school quality.
The district's current expense of education per student, from CDE's annual SACS filing — the freshest district spending figure the state publishes.
District-level, from the district's own SACS general-ledger filing — school-by-school breakdowns aren't published by the state.
Source: NCES F-33 · Full district breakdown →
The neighborhood it serves
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 5-year estimates (2024) · ZIP-level
On the state's science test (CAST), 42% met or exceeded the standard — science is tested in grades 5 and 8 but never enters the Scope Score.
Frequently asked questions
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Your other options
Nearby Elementary Schools
3 within ~3 mi · avg 50
Private alternatives nearby
Private schools within ~10 miles. These schools do not participate in state testing and cannot be scored or ranked.
Every number on this page
Score factors, grade-level breakdowns, subgroup proficiency, and peer comparisons.
| ELA | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 22% | 19% | 30% | 30% | 41% | −3 |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 31% | 17% | 14% | 39% | 47% | +2 |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 34% | 37% | 11% | 18% | 71% | +23 |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 15% | 34% | 20% | 32% | 49% | +2 |
| Grade 7 | 40 | 25% | 35% | 20% | 20% | 60% | +12 |
| Grade 8 | 54 | 19% | 33% | 24% | 24% | 52% | +6 |
| Grade 11 | 63 | 25% | 29% | 25% | 21% | 54% | +7 |
| Math | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT | MET+ | +/CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 27 | 15% | 41% | 15% | 30% | 56% | +10 |
| Grade 4 | 36 | 8% | 28% | 28% | 36% | 36% | −5 |
| Grade 5 | 38 | 16% | 24% | 16% | 45% | 39% | +4 |
| Grade 6 | 41 | 17% | 7% | 37% | 39% | 24% | −11 |
| Grade 7 | 40 | 45% | 10% | 13% | 33% | 55% | +21 |
| Grade 8 | 52 | 29% | 13% | 21% | 37% | 42% | +10 |
| Grade 11 | 59 | 22% | 25% | 15% | 37% | 47% | +24 |
| Science (CAST) | Tested | EXC | MET | NEAR | NOT |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grade 5/8/11 | 161 | 14% | 27% | 48% | 10% |
CAST is tested in grades 5, 8, and once in high school — not annually. Not part of the Scope Score.
| Subgroup · ELA | Tested | MET+ | vs district | vs CA |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 258 | 53.1% | +12 | +15 |
| Hispanic/Latino | 212 | 53.3% | +11 | +14 |
| Students with Disabilities | 26 | 12.1% | −3 | −5 |
| School | Dist | Scope | EXC | MET+ | Growth | Susp |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverside Virtual ← | — | 61 | 21.0% | 48.4% | +7.1 | 0.2% |
| Magnolia Elementary | 1.3 mi | 55 | 21.8% | 48.4% | −2.2 | 2.1% |
| Castle View Elementary | 3.1 mi | 49 | 20.0% | 49.0% | +1.4 | 1.3% |
| Victoria Elementary | 1.9 mi | 47 | 13.6% | 36.2% | +13.3 | 3.5% |
| California average | — | 45 | 21.3% | 42.7% | −2.9 | 1.6% |
| Year | Scope | Pctile | Rank | Exc | Met+ | Absent | Susp | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 39 | 58 | #2434 | 12.8% | 33.5% | 0.5% | 0.0% | +0.8pp |
| 2023 | 46 | 66 | #1918 | 15.2% | 36.2% | 0.2% | 0.1% | +1.1pp |
| 2024 | 39 | 43 | #3282 | 16.1% | 35.5% | 9.4% | 0.2% | -12.4pp |
| 2025 | 61 | 83 | #976 | 21.0% | 48.4% | 9.0% | 0.2% | +7.1pp |
- — Scored here as an elementary school — other grade spans appear in the data appendix.
| Group | 2019 | 2025 | Δ |
|---|---|---|---|
| Female | 42.0% | 6.5% | -35.5pp |
| Male | 58.5% | 8.8% | -49.7pp |
| Hispanic/Latino | 43.7% | 7.3% | -36.4pp |
| Socioeconomically Disadvantaged | 45.2% | 7.9% | -37.3pp |
| All Students | 49.0% | 7.7% | -41.3pp |
| Asian | — | 5.3% | — |
| Black/African American | — | 20.0% | — |
| Two or More Races | — | 9.1% | — |
| Students with Disabilities | — | 4.3% | — |
| English Learners | — | 5.7% | — |
| Homeless | — | 7.7% | — |
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