Summary:
Ripon, Wisconsin has five schools serving about 1,548 students from pre-kindergarten through 12th grade, all within the Ripon Area School District (56th percentile statewide, 3 stars). The city's schools are Ripon High (9–12), Ripon Middle (6–8), Barlow Park Elementary School (PK–2), Murray Park Elementary (3–5), and Odyssey Academy of Virtual Learning (PK–12, virtual/alternative). Notably, Murray Park (156 students) is smaller than the virtual Odyssey Academy (266).
Ripon Middle posts the strongest results in the city — a 67.9% average across eight 2025-26 tests, 12.4 points above the state — including 8th grade math at 76.42%, the highest non-virtual figure in the data set. Murray Park Elementary is the improvement story, climbing 29 percentile points in two years to reach 3 stars, with all eight of its subject-grade tests above both state and district, while carrying the city's highest poverty rate (46.79% free/reduced lunch) and lowest chronic absenteeism (1.3%). Ripon High earns 99% graduation and a 0.7% dropout rate, with ACT math 14.37 points above the state, though its 2025-26 ELA and science figures softened with a new 10th-grade cohort.
Barlow Park Elementary School reports no test scores because Wisconsin's Forward Exam starts in 3rd grade — a structural feature, not a weakness. Odyssey Academy of Virtual Learning is the outlier on every measure: 100% graduation alongside a 7.9% dropout rate, the lowest poverty (24.81%) and lowest spending ($11,957), a 25.8:1 student-teacher ratio roughly double every other school, and volatile results driven by tiny cohorts. Chronic absenteeism is a district-wide strength, with every school below the 17.3% state rate, though Ripon High's 8.7% is the city's highest.
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