Madison Elementary School

Madison Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary campus in Lombard, Illinois, overseen by Lombard SD 44. The school teaches 477 students in grades K through 5. That puts it 25% above the typical public school in Illinois, which averages around 381 students.

Across the 8 schools in Lombard SD 44 (2,989 students total), Madison Elementary School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Madison Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White, at 56% of enrollment. The remainder comes out to 21% Hispanic, 12% Asian, 8% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, DuPage County as a whole is about 65% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school lists 42 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 11.4:1. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 47% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against DuPage County (around 34%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 44.4%, the actual is 40.1%, a residual of -4.3 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (DuPage County) records that the typical household earns roughly $112,096 per year, about 52% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Madison Elementary School is one of 277 public schools in DuPage County (combined enrollment of about 138,557 students).

Wm Hammerschmidt Elem School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Madison Elementary School at 8th of 8; the average score across the group is 53.0%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 3%: 491 students in 2018 compared to 477 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share increased from 41% to 56%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.2:1 in 2018 to 11.4:1 in 2025.

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