Summary:
Zip code 73768 has two schools: Ringwood Elementary School serves prekindergarten through eighth grade and enrolls 216 students, while Ringwood High School serves grades 9–12 and enrolls 84, together covering PK–12. Because the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades scores do not reflect the same mix of grades. In 2025–2026, high school results were higher in all three subjects both schools reported: by 6 points in English Language Arts, 2 in math and 4 in science. The most important concern is that the high school’s scores fell sharply from the prior year, including a 15-point drop in ELA.
The high school leads the current all-grades comparison, but the two schools’ results are not uniformly strong against state results. Their equal-weighted averages were 23% in ELA, 25% in math and 22% in science, compared with 26%, 25% and 30% statewide; science is the clearest shared weakness, 8 points below the state. Grade-level results show some bright spots: high school 11th-grade math was 26% versus 17% statewide, while elementary 5th-grade math matched the state at 28%. The high school also had a stronger graduation rate—89% versus 78% statewide in 2024–2025, a 12-point advantage. Both schools had lower chronic absenteeism than the state in 2025–2026: 2% at the elementary school and 5% at the high school, versus 16% statewide.
Results have weakened recently, especially at the high school: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, its ELA fell from 41% to 26%, math from 30% to 26%, and science from 26% to 24%; history also dropped from 45% to 38%. The elementary school’s all-grades ELA and math fell by 3 and 4 points, while science improved by 3. SchoolDigger’s rankings also declined: the elementary school moved from the 54th to the 32nd percentile, and the high school from the 86th to the 63rd. The schools had similar 2024–2025 student-teacher ratios—10.6 at the elementary school and 10.8 at the high school. Their free/reduced lunch eligible measures that year were 60% and 49%, respectively; these figures offer context, not an explanation for score differences.
Thank you for your feedback!