Quest Charter School

Quest Charter School operates as an intimate elementary-level community in Ripon, Wisconsin, operated by Ripon Area School District. Current enrollment sits at 157 students spanning grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 51% leaner than the state mean of about 323.

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

On demographics, Quest Charter School records that 83% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder looks like 11% Hispanic, 4% multiracial.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Quest Charter School has 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Around 42% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Quest Charter School ranks in the top 10% of Wisconsin public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.9%; Quest Charter School posts 77.5%, +25.7 points above that line.

Around the school, census data for Fond du Lac County shows the typical household earns roughly $74,275 per year, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 6%. Quest Charter School is one of 42 public schools in Fond du Lac County (combined enrollment of about 13,230 students).

The closest other public school is Murray Park Elementary, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 6 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Quest Charter School comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 58.2%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area. As a public charter, Quest Charter School runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Quest Charter School's enrollment has ticked up 8% since 2018, when it stood at 145 (now 157). White enrollment moved from 88% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has narrowed: from 16.5:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 in 2025.

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