Ripton Elementary School
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Ripton reacquires its school from ACSD
ACSD transferred ownership of the former Ripton Elementary building to the town, which is now studying potential community uses for it.
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Ripton readies to reacquire school
Future control of the Ripton Elementary School property will be decided by ACSD voters on March 3.
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ACSD sets hearings on Ripton School closure
The Addison Central School District board has scheduled three public hearings in advance of its scheduled Nov. 24 vote on whether to initiate a formal closing process for…
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Ripton school could be reacquired by town
The ACSD board will vote on whether to initiate an official closure for RES. If successful, that process would allow the town to buy back the building for…
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Panel eyes future of Ripton school
A panel of Ripton residents and Addison Central School District officials will spend this summer brainstorming potential future uses for the Ripton Elementary School (RES) building, which closed…
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Ripton, Salisbury school transition advances
Addison Central School District officials continue to prepare the next school year that will see Ripton’s K-5 students attend classes at Salisbury Community School, which is currently recruiting…
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Longtime teacher part of Ripton’s graduating class
It will be a bittersweet graduation this June for the handful of Ripton Elementary School 5th-graders who’ll have the poignant distinction of being perhaps the last class to…
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Ripton Elementary will close this fall
The Addison Central School District board on Monday voted unanimously to shutter tiny Ripton Elementary School for the 2025-26 academic year while it sizes up the future of…
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ACSD preps for decisive meeting on Ripton school
The Addison Central School District board will hold a special meeting on Monday, March 31, to discuss — and potentially decide on — the future of Ripton Elementary…
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Outlook for Ripton School is bleak
For more than 200 years, Ripton schools have rated high marks among local citizens for the way they’ve nourished local children intellectually, emotionally and in intangible ways. But…
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Letter to the editor: Ripton supports school as potential closure looms
Is it inevitable that the Ripton Elementary School will close in the near future? Yes. Why? This is due to policy, maneuvering, and circumstance.
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Ripton school fails in bid to attract enough young students
An 11th-hour bid to preserve kindergarten and 1st-grade education at tiny Ripton Elementary School suffered a big setback when ACSD Superintendent Wendy Baker announced that not enough out-of-town…
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ACSD exploring guidelines for elementary school class sizes
The Addison Central School Board has decided to hold off on polling ACSD parents on their potential interest in sending their children to enrollment-challenged Ripton Elementary School (RES),…
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Faced with enrollment dip, Ripton reimagines its school
Ripton residents are joining forces to reimagine how public education might be delivered in their small town, in light of declining enrollment that’s placed the future of their…
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ACSD finds a principal for Ripton school
After the half-time principal of Ripton Elementary resigned, Salisbury Principal Bjarki Sears will become acting principal in Ripton and Roxanne Greene will be the on-site, part-time associate principal…
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Ripton’s little school remains intact for now
A successful reconciliation effort between Ripton parents and their local educators will allow the community’s elementary school to continue as a K-5 learning hub — at least for…