Summary:
ZIP code 54971 is home to two elementary schools, both part of the Ripon Area School District in Wisconsin: Barlow Park Elementary School, which serves grades PK–2 with 398 students, and Murray Park Elementary, which serves grades 3–5 with 156 students. Together the two schools cover the full PK–5 span and enroll 554 students, with Barlow Park holding about 72% of that enrollment.
Murray Park Elementary is the academic standout. Its state rank climbed from 653rd in 2023–2024 to 339th in 2025–2026, moving from 2 stars to 3 stars and from the 46th to the 67th percentile in a single year. In 2025–2026 it scored above the state average in all eight listed Forward Exam subject-grade results, averaging 63.32% proficient against 54.75% statewide, with its biggest edges in 3rd grade ELA and 3rd grade math. Its chronic absenteeism of 1.3% is far below the district's 4.6% and the state's 17.3%.
Barlow Park Elementary School is the larger school, with 4.5% chronic absenteeism — slightly below the district and well below the state. It spends $14,928 per student with a student-teacher ratio of 13, compared with $15,529 and 11.1 at Murray Park. Because Barlow Park serves PK–2, it has no Forward Exam results here; the listed exams cover grades 3–5, so the missing scores reflect grade span rather than performance. Free/reduced lunch rates are similar at the two schools (44.72% and 46.79%).
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