Ripon Elementary

Set in Ripon, California, Ripon Elementary is an average-sized K-5 school, operated by Ripon Unified. It serves 460 students across grades K through 8.

Ripon Elementary is one of 7 schools operated by Ripon Unified, a district that serves 3,378 students overall.

Looking at the student body, Ripon Elementary shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 42%, but no single group is in the majority. Other groups include 41% White, 11% multiracial, 5% Asian. That composition is broadly in line with San Joaquin County as a whole.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Ripon Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 39% of students at Ripon Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below San Joaquin County's rate of about 66%.

With demographic context factored in, Ripon Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.1%, the actual is 49.1%, a residual of -6.9 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for San Joaquin County put median household income runs about $92,179, 23% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. In all, San Joaquin County runs 251 public schools (combined enrollment of about 153,026 students), of which Ripon Elementary is one.

Ripon High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Ripon Elementary. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Ripon Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 52.3%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Ripon Elementary has fell 3%, going from 476 students in 2018 to 460 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 41% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 24.6:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 today.

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