Riverside High School, 19019 Upper Belmont Place: grades 9-12, 1,693 students in fall 2025, rated Distinguished by the state. Office: 703-554-8900.
Last checked Oct. 19, 2026. Sources: Riverside High School, Loudoun County Public Schools, the Virginia Department of Education’s School Quality Profile, the federal NCES school directory, LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the VHSL alignment.
Riverside High School has a Leesburg address, 19019 Upper Belmont Place, but most of its attendance zone is in Ashburn. Of the 9,813 county address points in its 2026-27 zone, 6,050 (62%) carry an Ashburn ZIP code, by our count, including much of Belmont. It serves grades 9 to 12 in Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS).
Who to call
- Front office: 703-554-8900
- Attendance: Attendance by email to RVHattendance@lcps.org
- Enrolling a new student: LCPS Registration Services, 571-252-2490, and online pre-registration
- Which school serves an address: LCPS Planning and GIS Services, 571-252-1050, or the LABEL address lookup
- Buses: LCPS Transportation, 571-252-1700, 6:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. (transportation page)
- LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000
| Address | 19019 Upper Belmont Place, Leesburg, VA 20176 |
| Grades | 9 to 12 |
| Main phone | 703-554-8900 |
| School day | 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m. on the regular schedule |
| Website | lcps.org/o/rvh |
| School division | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Principal
Principal Douglas A. Anderson, according to the school’s website.
Enrollment and teachers
- State count: 1,693 students in fall 2025, compared with 1,717 in 2024 and 1,755 in 2023, in the School Quality Profile.
- Federal count: 1,749 students in the 2023-24 school year, with 126 full-time-equivalent teachers, according to the NCES directory. That works out to about 14 students per teacher.
State report card
Virginia rates each school two ways on its School Quality Profile. Accreditation shows whether the state has approved the evidence the Standards of Accreditation require. The School Performance and Support Framework gives each school a score and one of four performance levels: Distinguished, Meets Expectations, Approaching Expectations or Needs Intensive Support, as listed in the LCPS division summary.
- Accreditation, 2025-26: Fully Accredited
- Framework score: 101, rated Distinguished, in the division summary
- On-time graduation: 99%. Of 440 students in the 2025-26 cohort, 436 graduated on time: 368 with an advanced studies diploma, 64 with a standard diploma and four with other diplomas. The completion rate was 99%, and two students dropped out.
Standards of Learning pass rates (end-of-course tests, share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:
| Subject | 2023-24 | 2024-25 | 2025-26 |
|---|---|---|---|
| English reading | 93% | 95% | 94% |
| Math | 82% | 84% | 91% |
| Science | 79% | 77% | 77% |
The full profile also reports attendance, teacher data and spending.
Attendance zone
The Riverside High zone and the Belmont Ridge Middle zone are the same for 2026-27: every address zoned for Belmont Ridge Middle goes on to Riverside High. The elementary zones inside it, by share of its 9,813 county address points: Steuart W. Weller Elementary (46%), Seldens Landing Elementary (33%) and Newton-Lee Elementary (22%). Of those address points, 6,050 (62%) carry an Ashburn ZIP code, 20147 or 20148.
Check one address in the LCPS LABEL lookup or on the division’s 2026-27 zone maps, or call Planning and GIS Services at 571-252-1050. Our neighborhoods guide lists the zoned schools for each Ashburn community.
How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,707 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers. LCPS does not publish a feeder list, so the feeder lines and shares are our count; the zone lines are the division’s own.
Calendar and bell times
From the 2026-27 LCPS calendar the School Board adopted:
- Thursday and Friday, Oct. 29-30: no school for students
- Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 2-3: no school (Election Day is Nov. 3)
- Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
- Wednesday to Friday, Nov. 25-27: Thanksgiving break
- Dec. 21 to Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
- March 22-26: spring break
- Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school
The school day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m. on the regular schedule, according to the school’s website (bell schedules).
Sports and activities
Riverside High plays in Class 5, Region D, Potomac District for 2026-27, according to the VHSL alignment. The district’s other schools are Briar Woods, Lightridge, Potomac Falls and Stone Bridge. Its teams are the Rams.
The team list on ArbiterLive, linked from the Riverside athletics site shows these teams: baseball, boys and girls basketball, competitive cheer, cross country, field hockey, girls flag football, football, golf, gymnastics, boys and girls lacrosse, crew, soccer, softball, swimming, tennis, indoor and outdoor track and field, boys and girls volleyball and wrestling.
Follow the high school teams on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.
More on Ashburn schools
- The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/rvh
- The state’s School Quality Profile for Riverside High
- Every public school in Ashburn, with zones and state ratings
- Our Ashburn schools guide for the calendar, registration and the School Board
Frequently asked questions
What grades does Riverside High School serve?
Grades 9 through 12. The state counted 1,693 students in fall 2025.
How is Riverside High School rated by the state?
It is fully accredited for 2025-26. In Virginia’s School Performance and Support Framework it scored 101 and is rated Distinguished.
Which middle school feeds Riverside High School?
Belmont Ridge Middle. Every address in its zone goes on to Riverside High.
What time does Riverside High School start?
Classes start at 9:30 a.m.; the school day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m. on the regular schedule, according to the school’s website.
Who is the principal of Riverside High School?
Douglas A. Anderson, according to the school’s website.
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