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Enrollment
411
Elementary
DISTRICT 468 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PASADENA UNIFIED·NCES 062994004678
Madison Elementary
515 Ashtabula St., Pasadena, CA 91104 · (626) 396-5780 · Los Angeles County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL411 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
24.9:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 23.1:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
79%
325 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 65%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 81 | 20% |
| Grade 1 | 53 | 13% |
| Grade 2 | 71 | 17% |
| Grade 3 | 68 | 17% |
| Grade 4 | 73 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 65 | 16% |
This year's kindergarten class (81) is 25% larger than its 5th grade class (65).
Student demographics
10%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 62% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
19.9%
CA avg 49.1% . +5.9pp since 2014
Math
17.3%
CA avg 37.7% . +6.3pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 20 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 17 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 6 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 8.3% | 11.7% | 21.8% | 58.3% |
| Math | 3.4% | 13.9% | 23.6% | 59.1% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.9% | 17.3% |
| 2023-24 | 16.8% | 17.2% |
| 2022-23 | 17.5% | 16.4% |
| 2021-22 | 16.7% | 10.1% |
| 2018-19 | 23.5% | 23.4% |
| 2017-18 | 24.5% | 13.4% |
| 2016-17 | 25.7% | 18.8% |
| 2015-16 | 22.0% | 9.0% |
| 2014-15 | 14.0% | 11.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of CA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
17.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
33.2%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 18% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 33% typical for California schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Madison Elementary
Madison Elementary's state test result (17.7% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 3 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Elementary this school | 411 | 79.1% | 17.7% |
| Moreno Elementary Montclair | 428 | 79.7% | 37.7% |
| Soleil Academy Charter Lynwood | 385 | 75.1% | N/A |
| Anna M. Glazier Elementary Norwalk | 388 | 80.4% | 30.1% |
| Fenton Primary Center Pacoima | 489 | 79.6% | N/A |
| Sunflower Elementary El Centro | 427 | 79.2% | 42.5% |
Matched among California elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Madison Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Los Angeles County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 17.7% | #4,771 of 5,151 | #1,102 of 1,126 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 17.3% | #4,544 of 5,172 ▼ 62 | #1,082 of 1,129 ▼ 22 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #4,845 of 5,172 ▲ 97 | #1,105 of 1,129 ▲ 10 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.2pp | #1,598 of 5,116 | #459 of 1,116 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 411 | #3,548 of 5,915 | #751 of 1,300 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.9:1 | #4,382 of 5,352 | #992 of 1,213 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.8% | #4,939 of 5,354 | #1,054 of 1,214 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.1% | #2,269 of 5,625 | #714 of 1,276 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #2,881 of 3,837 | #776 of 947 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
411
-77 (-16%) vs 2020
-38% since 1990-91, when it was 660
Student : Teacher
24.9:1
was 28.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 411 | 16.5 | 24.9:1 | 79% (325) |
| 2023-24 | 409 | 15.5 | 26.4:1 | 90% (368) |
| 2022-23 | 424 | 16.5 | 25.7:1 | 90% (381) |
| 2020-21 | 488 | 17 | 28.7:1 | 90% (441) |
| 2017-18 | 449 | 16.1 | 27.9:1 | 80% (358) |
| 2015-16 | 489 | N/A | N/A | 95% (463) |
| 2010-11 | 490 | N/A | N/A | 97% (474) |
| 2000-01 | 731 | 40 | 18.3:1 | 92% (674) |
| 1990-91 | 660 | 26 | 25.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 8% (449 to 411); teachers up 2% (16.1 to 16.5).
About Madison Elementary
Madison Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school with its address in Pasadena, California. The school counts 411 students across kindergarten through 5.
Enrollment across the 23 schools in Pasadena Unified totals 13,639 students.
At Madison Elementary, Hispanic students make up 95% of the student body. Other students are 4% Black. By comparison, Los Angeles County residents are about 48% Hispanic. Madison Elementary has a diversity index of 10%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Madison Elementary counts 16.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, about 24.9 students for each one. The 22.3:1 average for elementary schools in California is lower than this school's figure. About 79% of students at the school meet free or reduced-price lunch income limits. On average, public schools in Los Angeles County report 70%.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, Madison Elementary would score about 33.2%. It scores 17.7%, a bottom-10% result among California schools on BeatsExpectations.
Across Los Angeles County, median household income is about $90,112, roughly 36% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 10%. The public schools of Los Angeles County number 2,244 and enroll about 1,265,907.
Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary is the public school closest to Madison Elementary, about 1.0 miles away. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Ranked by average proficiency, Madison Elementary places 6th out of 6 schools in its immediate area.
The National Center for Education Statistics classifies the school's location as City: Mid-size, meaning it is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Madison Elementary had 488 students in 2020-21 and 411 in 2024-25, a 16% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 28.7:1 to 24.9:1.
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Los Angeles County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
9,808,667
Census ACS
Median income
$90,112
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
2,244
1,265,907 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Pasadena Unified
- Marshall FundamentalHigh · 1,689 students
- Pasadena HighHigh · 1,303 students
- John Muir HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Blair HighHigh · 1,053 students
- Mary W. Jackson STEAM Multilingual Magnet ElementaryElementary · 658 students
- Sierra Madre ElementaryElementary · 652 students
Other schools in Pasadena
- Options For Youth - Duarte IncHigh · 3,369 students
- Marshall FundamentalHigh · 1,689 students
- Pasadena HighHigh · 1,303 students
- John Muir HighHigh · 1,206 students
- Blair HighHigh · 1,053 students
- Longfellow (Henry W.) ElementaryElementary · 546 students
Other Madison Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 27 states are named Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary is the 23rd largest of the 60.
- Madison ElementaryNorth Highlands, CA · 754 students
- Madison ElementarySanta Ana, CA · 749 students
- Madison ElementaryStockton, CA · 703 students
- Madison ElementarySan Leandro, CA · 694 students
- Madison ElementaryRiverside, CA · 675 students
Nearby schools
- Longfellow (Henry W.) Elementary1.0 mi · 546
- Octavia E. Butler Magnet1.0 mi · 481
- Washington Elementary STEM Magnet1.0 mi · 428
- Twentieth Street Elementary1.2 mi · 499
- McKinley1.4 mi · 538
- Aveson School of Leaders1.5 mi · 279
Frequently asked questions
About Madison ElementaryHow many students attend Madison Elementary?
Madison Elementary enrolls approximately 411 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Madison Elementary serve?
Madison Elementary serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Madison Elementary?
Approximately 24.9:1 students per teacher at Madison Elementary.
How diverse is Madison Elementary?
Madison Elementary reports a student body of 0% White, 95% Hispanic, 4% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
What district is Madison Elementary in?
Madison Elementary is part of Pasadena Unified.
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