Madison Jr High School

Located at 600 Farrish St, in Madison, Illinois, Madison Jr High School is a micro-enrollment middle school that educates 124 students (grades 6 through 8), run under Madison CUSD 12. Enrollment runs roughly 73% leaner than the state mean of about 462.

Within Madison CUSD 12, which oversees 3 schools and 613 students, Madison Jr High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Madison Jr High School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (90%); the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Madison Jr High School has 10 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 98% of students at Madison Jr High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Madison County (around 46%), the school's rate is meaningfully above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Jr High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 15.2%, the actual is 18.4%, a residual of +3.3 points.

In the broader community, Madison County reports that the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, 31% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Madison Jr High School is one of 84 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: Madison Senior High School, around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Madison Jr High School comes 2nd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 11.0%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Madison Jr High School has decreased 17%, going from 149 students in 2018 to 124 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment ticked up from 1% to 6% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.4:1 in 2018 to 12.4:1 today.

Inside the community feed, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.