Riverside High School, Leesburg: zone, report card and calendar

Last checked Oct. 23, 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, at 19019 Upper Belmont Place, is the high school for the Belmont Ridge Middle zone, which takes in the Lansdowne area east of Leesburg, in ZIP code 20176, and much of Ashburn, grades 9 to 12. It is run by Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS), the county-wide school division.

Riverside has a Leesburg mailing address but sits outside the town limits, according to Loudoun County’s town boundary map.

Who to call

• Front office: 703-554-8900
• Reporting an absence: 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 (transportation page)
• LCPS central office: 21000 Education Court, Ashburn, 571-252-1000

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 (share of tested students who passed), from the School Quality Profile:

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%). None of those address points is inside the town limits; 3,194 (33%) carry a Leesburg mailing address, ZIP code 20176.

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 Leesburg community.

How we checked: we matched Loudoun County’s 140,704 address points against LCPS’s 2026-27 elementary, middle and high school zone layers and the town boundary. 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:

• Wednesday, Oct. 28: end of the first quarter
• Thursday, Oct. 29, to Tuesday, Nov. 3: no school for students (Election Day is Nov. 3)
• Monday, Nov. 9: holiday
• Wednesday, Nov. 25, to Friday, Nov. 27: Thanksgiving break
• Monday, Dec. 21, to Friday, Jan. 1: winter break; classes resume Monday, Jan. 4
• Monday, March 22, to Friday, March 26: spring break
• Friday, June 11, 2027: last day of school

Weather closings are posted on the LCPS inclement weather page.

The regular day runs 9:30 a.m. to 4:18 p.m., according to the school’s 2026-27 bell schedules. The full bell schedule is on the school’s website.

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, Freedom (South Riding), 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.

In 2025-26, 955 students took Advanced Placement courses and 462 took dual enrollment courses, according to the School Quality Profile. Loudoun County students can also apply to the Academies of Loudoun, which they attend alongside their zoned high school.

Follow the high school teams on our Friday night football page and the high school scoreboard.

More on Leesburg schools

• The school’s own page: lcps.org/o/rvh
• The state’s School Quality Profile for Riverside High
• Every public school in Leesburg, with zones and state ratings
• Our Leesburg 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?

Belmont Ridge Middle. Every address zoned for Belmont Ridge Middle goes on to Riverside High.

Who is the principal of Riverside High School?

Douglas A. Anderson, according to the school’s website.