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Riverview International Academy honored as 2025 California Distinguished School; principal outlines academic and language goals
Summary
Riverview International Academy, a Mandarin–Spanish immersion school in the Lakeside Union School District, was presented to the board as a 2025 California Distinguished School and described current achievement targets, preliminary assessment results and efforts to close opportunity gaps.
Riverview International Academy was presented to the Lakeside Union School District board as a 2025 California Distinguished School, and Principal John Greenwell highlighted the school’s academic goals, language-program outcomes and early assessment results.
“We are just recently announced as a California distinguished school for the 2025 school year,” Principal John Greenwell told the board, and he described Riverview as “Southern California's premier Mandarin and Spanish immersion school.”
Greenwell said Riverview has five school-plan goals: academic achievement in English language arts, academic achievement in mathematics, social-emotional health, enrichment opportunities and language proficiency. He said the ELA target is that at least 65% of students “meet or exceed expectations” on the district summative assessment…
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