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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Riverside School, New Castle, CO

CEP schoolRiverside School is a public middle school in New Castle, part of Garfield School District No. Re-2. It enrolled 483 students in 2024-25, with 14.6 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
483
Teachers (FTE)
33.0
Students per teacher
14.6
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 2.9 lower than the district figure of 17.5. The Colorado average across schools is 16.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.6
District17.5
Colorado16.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
215 Alder Avenue, New Castle, CO 81647
Phone
(970)665-7800
District
Garfield School District No. Re-2
County
Garfield County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
Town: Remote
NCES school ID
080624001098
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
149
Reduced-price lunch
48
Free or reduced-price lunch
19740.8% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in Garfield School District No. Re-2

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.