Accolades

Riverhill School is a place where children are known, loved, and encouraged to be their best. Our students achieve great things in their academic careers--and have fun doing it!

We have found over the years that when children are well loved and celebrated for the wonderful things that make them special, they achieve greatly.

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AISA President's Award

The President’s Award was established by the AISA for the specific purpose of recognizing member schools that achieve academic excellence during the school year and it is awarded to only one school per academic classification, which are based on student enrollment. Riverhill was the recipient for the 2022-2023 school year in the K-8 Division.

AISA Blue Ribbon School 11 Years in a Row!

Riverhill has the distinction of having been named an AISA Blue Ribbon School for the 2012-2013, 2013-2014, 2014-2015, 2015-2016, 2016-2017, 2017-2018, 2018-2019, 2019-2020, 2020-2021, 2021-2022 and 2022-2023 school years.

Cognia STEAM Accreditation

In May 2021, Riverhill School along with the STEAM Academy received Full Accreditation.

Riverhill School Voted Best of Florence

Riverhill School also has the distinction of having been voted BEST PRIVATE SCHOOL OF FLORENCE for FIVE YEARS in a row (2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022).

Index of Education Quality

Riverhill School is accredited through AdvancEd, an umbrella organization that includes SACS, AISA, and numerous other accrediting agencies. AdvancEd covers over 32,000 public and independent institutions in over 70 countries and involves 20 million students. Schools are required to go through a re-accreditation process every five years. This process includes a visit from an External Review Team that spends several days on campus interviewing stakeholders and investigating the educational practices of the school. Five main areas are explored: Purpose and Direction; Governance and Leadership; Teaching and Assessing for Learning; Resources and Support Systems; and Continuous Improvement. Riverhill recently completed this rigorous re-accreditation process. The scores for Riverhill School are listed below. Please note Riverhill’s scores as compared to the average scores of ALL the schools (public and independent) that completed this process during the last school year.

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Average for all other Schools

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Riverhill School

Please note Riverhill’s scores as compared to the average scores of ALL the schools (public and independent) that completed this process during the last school year.


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