Enrollment
265
Elementary
DISTRICT 277 · STATE 379
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·COLORADO SPRINGS SCHOOL DISTRICT 11·NCES 080306000251
Madison Elementary School
4120 CONSTITUTION AVENUE, COLORADO SPRINGS, CO 80909 · (719) 328-7300 · El Paso County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL265 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 50% of Colorado public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Colorado public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 16.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
73%
194 students
DISTRICT 62% · STATE 50%
Community
0
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 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 53 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 37 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 44 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (37) is 16% smaller than its 5th grade class (44).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
CMAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
26.2%
CO avg 44.9% . -6.3pp since 2023
Math
25.2%
CO avg 36.1% . -14.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the CMAS, Colorado's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Colorado schools, those numbers are about 45 and 36. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 14 points.
CMAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.2% | 25.2% |
| 2023-24 | 32.5% | 39.3% |
% Met or Exceeded Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CMAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
29.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
22.3%
based on CO schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+6.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 29% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 22% typical for Colorado schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Colorado's top nor bottom 10%.
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 School
Madison Elementary School's state test result (29.2% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Elementary School this school | 265 | 73.2% | 29.2% |
| Columbia Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 265 | 66.8% | 30.4% |
| Welchester Elementary School GOLDEN | 293 | 72.4% | 31.3% |
| Aragon Elementary School FOUNTAIN | 358 | 74.9% | 24.9% |
| Audubon Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 222 | 71.6% | 32.8% |
| Venetucci Elementary School COLORADO SPRINGS | 272 | 67.6% | 31.5% |
Matched among Colorado 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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Colorado | In El Paso County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 29.2% | #598 of 931 | #98 of 128 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 25.2% | #615 of 940 ▼ 211 | #92 of 126 ▼ 33 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.2% | #717 of 946 ▼ 99 | #102 of 127 ▼ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 265 | #798 of 1,056 | #110 of 137 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.3:1 | #432 of 896 | #75 of 122 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.7% | #99 of 896 | #37 of 122 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 73.2% | #235 of 983 | #25 of 134 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -30.6% | #102 of 664 | #24 of 100 |
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
265
-55 (-17%) vs 2020
-42% since 1990-91, when it was 456
Student : Teacher
15.3:1
was 16.0:1
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 | 265 | 17.3 | 15.3:1 | 73% (194) |
| 2023-24 | 310 | 23.3 | 13.3:1 | 71% (220) |
| 2022-23 | 351 | 21.6 | 16.3:1 | 62% (217) |
| 2020-21 | 320 | 20 | 16.0:1 | 63% (202) |
| 2017-18 | 382 | 21.3 | 17.9:1 | 64% (244) |
| 2015-16 | 408 | 23 | 17.7:1 | 70% (284) |
| 2010-11 | 380 | 23 | 16.5:1 | 53% (200) |
| 2000-01 | 336 | 17 | 19.8:1 | 32% (108) |
| 1990-91 | 456 | 21 | 21.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 31% (382 to 265); teachers down 19% (21.3 to 17.3).
About Madison Elementary School
As a low-enrollment elementary school, Madison Elementary School serves students in COLORADO SPRINGS, Colorado. It has an enrollment of 265 students in pre-K through 5. That compares with an average of about 379 students for elementary schools in Colorado.
Madison Elementary School is part of Colorado Springs School District 11, where 60 schools serve 22,293 students.
No group is above 50% at Madison Elementary School; the largest is White, at 46%. The school is also 33% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, and 8% Black. The White share of the county population is higher, at 70%. The diversity index for Madison Elementary School is 66%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Teacher count: 17.3 full-time equivalents. Student-to-teacher ratio: 15.3:1. Across elementary schools in Colorado, the average ratio is 16.6:1. Roughly 73% of students come from households that qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in El Paso County is 42%.
Madison Elementary School holds a B- allk12 Grade, placing it above 50% of Colorado public elementary schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Madison Elementary School is 6.8 points above the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 29.2% actual, 22.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Colorado.
The school's county is El Paso County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $90,363 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Public schools in El Paso County number 245, with about 114,356 students.
About 0.3 miles separate Madison Elementary School from the closest public school, Thomas MacLaren State Charter School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Madison Elementary School is 3rd of 7 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment decreased 17%.
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El Paso County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
742,999
Census ACS
Median income
$90,363
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
114,356 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Colorado Springs School District 11
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Coronado High SchoolHigh · 1,279 students
- Palmer High SchoolHigh · 1,265 students
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter SchoolCombined · 975 students
- Jenkins Middle SchoolMiddle · 791 students
- Mitchell High SchoolHigh · 757 students
Other schools in COLORADO SPRINGS
- The Classical Academy CharterElementary · 1,909 students
- Pine Creek High SchoolHigh · 1,875 students
- Doherty High SchoolHigh · 1,715 students
- Banning Lewis Ranch AcademyCombined · 1,697 students
- Liberty High SchoolHigh · 1,526 students
- Vista Ridge High SchoolHigh · 1,473 students
Other Madison Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 27 states are named Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary School is the 44th largest of the 60.
- Madison ElementaryNorth Highlands, CA · 754 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolADRIAN, MI · 753 students
- Madison ElementarySanta Ana, CA · 749 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolMiddletown, OH · 711 students
- MADISON ELEMENTARYSAINT CLOUD, MN · 704 students
Nearby schools
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter School0.3 mi · 975
- Thomas MacLaren State Charter School0.3 mi · 965
- Wilson Elementary School0.7 mi · 295
- Mitchell High School0.9 mi · 757
- Nikola Tesla Education Opportunity Center1.0 mi · 291
- Penrose Elementary School1.1 mi · 279
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Madison Elementary School?
Madison Elementary School enrolls approximately 265 students in grades PK-05.
Is Madison Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Madison Elementary School have?
Madison Elementary School employs 17 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 15.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Madison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Madison Elementary School are roughly 46% White, 33% Hispanic, 8% Black, 0% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Is Madison Elementary School public or private?
Madison Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Colorado Springs School District 11.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.