Lake Ripley Elementary

Lake Ripley Elementary is one of the heavily attended elementary-level communitys in LITCHFIELD, Minnesota, run under Litchfield Public School District, with 568 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 344 students per school, that is 65% bigger than typical.

Within Litchfield Public School District, which oversees 5 schools and 1,566 students, Lake Ripley Elementary is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, Lake Ripley Elementary lists that White students make up the majority at 77%. The remainder looks like 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, Meeker County as a whole is about 93% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 41 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.0:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.7:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 51% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Meeker County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Lake Ripley Elementary ranks in the top 10% of Minnesota public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 37.9%; Lake Ripley Elementary posts 51.1%, +13.2 points above that line.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Meeker County put median household income runs about $75,446, 20% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Lake Ripley Elementary is one of 13 public schools in Meeker County (combined enrollment of about 2,994 students).

Litchfield Early Childhood Special is the nearest neighboring public school, about 1.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 5 other public schools cluster around Lake Ripley Elementary. On composite proficiency, Lake Ripley Elementary comes 3rd of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 51.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Lake Ripley Elementary has ticked down 3%, going from 586 students in 2018 to 568 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 87% to 77% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 today.

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