Summary:
ZIP code 43845 in West Lafayette, Ohio, is served by a single public high school — Ridgewood High School — a combined 8th-through-12th-grade building with 418 students in the Ridgewood Local district. Because this ZIP contains only one school, there is no local peer to compare it against; the meaningful comparison is against Ohio averages.
Academically, the school performs above the state average in 8 of the 9 subjects tested. Its strongest results are American Government (84.5% proficient vs. 71.6% statewide), 8th Grade Mathematics (75.8% vs. 52.0%) and English II (73.4% vs. 62.7%). Geometry is its lowest score at 53.8%, yet still 10.5 points above the state. Biology is the only subject below the Ohio line (65.9% vs. 67.0%). Across all nine tests the school averages 69.8% proficiency against the state's 61.2%, and that lead widened this year. The graduation rate is 97.6%. Gains were concentrated in the middle grades, where 8th grade math rose 21.8 points and 8th grade English rose 16.9 points in a single year — a much stronger incoming pipeline than the cohort before it.
Two items deserve attention. Algebra I fell 10.1 points (75.7% to 65.6%), possibly because more 8th graders now take the course early. Chronic absenteeism is 18.3%, well above the district's 11.9%, and is the one measure where the school clearly trails its own system — high achievement and high absenteeism coexist here. Free/reduced-lunch information is not reported, so family income context cannot be assessed, and the $9,325 per-student spending figure dates to 2018-2019. The school holds a 3-star rating, though its state percentile rank slipped from 66th to 55th even as proficiency rose — a reminder that rankings depend on how quickly other schools improve.
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