# River Ridge High School

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `530585001208`
- **School name**: River Ridge High School
- **Location**: Lacey, WA 98513
- **Address**: 350 River Ridge Drive SE
- **District**: North Thurston Public Schools (LEAID `5305850`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 47.05610, -122.75190
- **Phone**: (360)412-4820
- **Wikidata QID**: Q7337754 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/River_Ridge_High_School_(Lacey,_Washington)
- **Founded**: 1993

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,547
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 76
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 20.4:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 46.9%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: WA WSIF
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Foundational
- **Indicators**:
  - proficiency_ela_decile: 6
  - proficiency_math_decile: 2
  - proficiency_combined_decile: 4
  - grad_combined_decile: 6
  - el_progress_decile: 3
  - regularattendance_decile: 1
  - ninthgradeontrack_decile: 4
  - dualcredit_decile: 9
  - sqss_combined_decile: 4.666666
  - _2025_score: 5.05
  - overall: Foundational

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (WA WSIF)**: 62.0% proficient

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 29

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 22.2% (329 students) [source: crdc_2020]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 1.9%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 22.2%
- **Black/African American**: 8.4%
- **Asian**: 6.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 43.0%
- **Pacific Islander**: 2.3%
- **Two or more races**: 15.7%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 47.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 10.4% — 155 students


## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 65 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 41 students
- **Autism**: 21 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Multiple Disabilities**: 8 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 7 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $16,528
- **Federal share**: $729
- **State + local share**: $15,800
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,454
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $18,877,429
- **Federal share**: 8.3%
- **State share**: 61.3%
- **Local share**: 30.4%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,346,886

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $78,401
- **Poverty rate**: 17.0%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 29.2%
- **Unemployment**: 5.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,052
- **Foreign-born residents**: 13.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 15.7%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 8.1 miles (PALERMO WELL FIELD GROUND WATER CONTAMINATION)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 4.51 miles (3444 MARTIN WAY E)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: LACEY WATER DEPARTMENT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2024-04-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 5.14643 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 16.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **Meadows Elementary** — 0.8 mi away, 13.68% (this school: 22.18%)
- **Nisqually Middle School** — 0.9 mi away, 9.76% (this school: 22.18%)
- **Olympic View Elementary** — 1.3 mi away, 18.1% (this school: 22.18%)
- **Salish Middle School** — 1.8 mi away, 6.8% (this school: 22.18%)
- **Seven Oaks Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 16.55% (this school: 22.18%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey
- **Performance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.wa.whatschool.ai/en/wa/school/river-ridge-high-school-lacey/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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