Ritter Elementary School was named in honor of Michael Ritter, an
early settler, and the small suburb named after him, Rittersville. The
building was an outgrowth of a meeting between citizens and the school
board, welcoming its first pupils in 1925. In 1955, four classrooms and a
cafeteria were added to accommodate the expanding student population.
In
2007-2008, two additional classrooms were added by converting existing
space into classrooms. The two-story building contains a 550-seat
auditorium-gymnasium combination, 22 classrooms with networked and
internet-accessible computers, teacher work stations, an ESL room,
health room and cafeteria that can feed 150 students at a time. The
playground area received a new play structure in fall 2008 to help meet
the physical needs of Ritter’s students.