Summary:
Elementary schools in the Litchfield Public School District consist of a single school: Lake Ripley Elementary, located at 100 W Pleasure Dr in Litchfield, MN, serving grades K–4 with 568 students. Because it is the district's only elementary school, there are no elementary-to-elementary comparisons to make; instead, families can look at how the school compares with the district and state, and how its own results have changed over time. The broader Litchfield Public School District is ranked 130 of 458 Minnesota districts, placing it in the 72nd percentile with 4 stars.
Lake Ripley's clearest relative strength is all-grades math proficiency in 2025–2026: 52.3% of students met the standard, above the district's 47.8% and the state's 44.9% — a gap of +4.5 and +7.4 percentage points. In 2024–2025 the margin was even wider, at 60.68% versus 51.13% for the district and 45.21% for the state. Grade-level results are more sobering: 3rd grade math was 54.1% against the state's 57.9%, and 4th grade math was 50.8% against 55.2%. Reading is the weaker subject, with all-grades reading at 44.6% versus the district's 48.5% and the state's 48.6%; 4th grade reading lagged the state by 5.6 percentage points, while 3rd grade reading was nearly level at 46.4% versus 46.8%.
Year over year, math fell 8.38 points — far more than the district's 3.33-point and the state's 0.31-point declines — while reading slipped 1.75 points. The school's rank dropped from 372 of 872 (57th percentile, 3 stars) in 2024–2025 to 472 of 869 (46th percentile, 2 stars) in 2025–2026. For context, 50.53% of students qualified for free/reduced lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 13.9. One caveat: because Lake Ripley serves only K–4, its tested grades are mainly 3rd and 4th, so grade-level comparisons to the state are more meaningful than all-grades ones. District grade-level figures are identical to the school's, since the district has no other elementary school.
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