Summary:
ZIP code 43845 covers West Lafayette, Ohio, and contains three public schools — Ridgewood Elementary School (PK–3), Ridgewood Middle School (4–7), and Ridgewood High School (8–12) — all in the Ridgewood Local district, which ranks 278 of 773 districts statewide (64th percentile, 3 stars). Total enrollment is 1,246, split fairly evenly across the three grade bands, and all three schools hold a 3-star rating.
The academic standout is Ridgewood Middle School, where 5th grade science proficiency was 83.5% in 2025–2026 versus 62.7% statewide — about 20.8 points above the state — and nearly as high the year before at 83.7%. It scored above the state in 7 of 9 reported tests and has the lowest chronic absenteeism in the ZIP at 8.7%, below the district's 11.9%, while its state rank percentile rose from 53rd to 63rd over three years. Ridgewood High School has a 97.6% graduation rate and beat the state in 8 of 9 tests in 2025–2026, including 8th grade math (75.8% vs. 52.0%) and American Government (84.5% vs. 71.6%); only Biology was slightly behind (65.9% vs. 67.0%). Its concerns are chronic absenteeism of 18.3%, more than double the middle school's, and a rank slide from the 66th to 55th percentile.
Ridgewood Elementary's 3rd grade English Language Arts rose from 44.2% to 59.2%, a 15-point gain that still leaves it just under the state's 63.4%; math stayed below state at 56.7% vs. 62.1%. Its absenteeism is 9.4%. Notably, the high school has the smallest student-teacher ratio (16.0) and highest per-student spending ($9,325, 2018–2019) yet the highest absenteeism, while the middle school has the largest ratio (20.8) and lowest spending ($7,528) alongside its strong results. Free/reduced-lunch data is unavailable for all three schools, and elementary testing covers only 3rd grade.
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