Barlow Park Charter School

Barlow Park Charter School is one of the compact elementary-level communitys in Ripon, Wisconsin, run under Ripon Area School District, with 157 students on its rolls from grades K through 2. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Barlow Park Charter School sits 51% smaller than that benchmark.

Within Ripon Area School District, which oversees 7 schools and 1,862 students, Barlow Park Charter School is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, Barlow Park Charter School logs that 81% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority; the rest looks like 11% Hispanic, 5% multiracial.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 14 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Barlow Park Charter School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 46% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Fond du Lac County indicate the typical household earns roughly $74,275 per year, roughly 22% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Fond du Lac County's 42 public schools (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students), Barlow Park Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Barlow Park Elementary School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools.

The campus sits in a small-town setting. Barlow Park Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

On this page, members of the Barlow Park Charter School community share and discuss fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.