Riverview Elem School, East Peoria IL

Original Research by School Decision on Riverview Elem School

Riverview Elementary School is a small school serving grades prekindergarten through 8 in East Peoria, with an enrollment of about 200 students. The school sits in Riverview CCSD 2, a single-school district, and serves a student body that is predominantly white, with a smaller share of students identifying as multiracial, Hispanic, or Black.

Academic performance across all tested subjects and grades is weak. In mathematics, proficiency rates range from very low in the primary grades to modest in middle school; the third-grade results are particularly low. English language arts shows more variation: grades 3 through 6 demonstrate low to very low proficiency, while seventh and eighth grades improve markedly, with eighth grade showing a majority of students meeting proficiency. Science results, available for fifth and eighth grades only, fall between math and ELA performance. Overall, the school's proficiency index places it in the bottom quartile among Woodford County districts. Testing participation rates are strong, suggesting the assessments capture a full picture of the school population.

The student demographic composition skews toward the advantaged end: the school serves very few low-income students on free or reduced-price lunch, though specific poverty numbers are not publicly reported. The broader East Peoria setting offers stable suburban housing values and a healthy regional job market anchored by healthcare, manufacturing, and retail employment. Families choosing this school are likely drawn to its small, mixed-grade setting and proximity to neighborhoods and commercial areas undergoing modest residential investment around the Levee District riverfront.

The school's strength lies in its size and integrated primary-through-middle structure, which allows younger and older students to move through a single facility. The sharp improvement in reading proficiency between sixth and seventh grades suggests something shifts in instruction or student engagement at the transition into the upper middle grades, though this pattern deserves closer examination. In contrast, mathematics proficiency remains chronically low across the entire school, including in the upper grades where gains in reading are most visible. A parent may want to look into what instructional approaches the school uses in reading at grades 7 and 8 and whether those have been adapted for math. No information about special education services, English learner supports, or program breadth was available in the data. Recent district changes or curriculum initiatives were not found in public sources, so the school's current direction and planned improvements remain unclear from available records.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 37%

School 7% · District 7%

▼ 39 pts below state median · ▼ 54 pts below county median

Grade 421%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 16 pts below state median · ▼ 32 pts below county median

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 8 pts below state median

Grade 617%

School 17% · District 17%

▼ 6 pts below state median

Grade 730%

School 30% · District 30%

▲ 2 pts above state median

Grade 816%

School 16% · District 16%

▼ 7 pts below state median

English language arts

Grade 321%

School 21% · District 21%

▼ 23 pts below state median · ▼ 39 pts below county median

Grade 413%

School 13% · District 13%

▼ 36 pts below state median · ▼ 57 pts below county median

Grade 533%

School 33% · District 33%

▼ 19 pts below state median

Grade 630%

School 30% · District 30%

▼ 20 pts below state median

Grade 752%

School 52% · District 52%

▲ 1 pts above state median

Grade 858%

School 58% · District 58%

▲ 5 pts above state median

Science

Grade 522%

School 22% · District 22%

▼ 15 pts below state median

Grade 832%

School 32% · District 32%

▼ 8 pts below state median

This schoolRiverview CCSD 2, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 8Lower-income17%Higher-income29%12 pp gap