Enrollment
277
Elementary
DISTRICT 286 · STATE 381
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH HOLLAND SD 151·NCES 173675003782
Madison School
15700 Orchid Dr, South Holland, IL 60473 · (708) 339-2117 · Cook County
GRADES 04–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL277 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 63% of Illinois 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.
- A+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 Illinois public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.6:1
19 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.3:1 · STATE 13.9:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
276 students
DISTRICT 100% · STATE 56%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 4 | 130 | 47% |
| Grade 5 | 146 | 53% |
| Grade 6 | 1 | 0% |
Student demographics
47%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 46% · STATE 69% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Madison School→Coolidge Middle School
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within South Holland SD 151. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
45.3%
IL avg 51.0% . +20.0pp since 2023
Math
33.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +17.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 20 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 18 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 45.3% | 33.7% |
| 2023-24 | 25.3% | 16.0% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of IL schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
14.0%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+20.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 14% typical for Illinois schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 21 points, placing it in Illinois's top 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 School
Madison School's state test result (34.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison School this school | 277 | 99.6% | 34.5% |
| Eisenhower School South Holland | 274 | 99.6% | 34.9% |
| Taft School Harvey | 308 | 100.0% | N/A |
| Earle Elementary School Chicago | 286 | 98.3% | 14.6% |
| Lincoln Elementary School Bellwood | 310 | 99.4% | 26.0% |
| Hay Elementary Community Academy Chicago | 247 | 97.6% | 21.3% |
Matched among Illinois 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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Cook County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,107 of 1,925 | #324 of 760 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #1,168 of 2,077 ▲ 191 | #354 of 829 ▲ 81 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 45.3% | #1,176 of 2,077 ▲ 191 | #387 of 829 ▲ 96 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 277 | #1,672 of 2,419 | #690 of 901 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.6:1 | #1,435 of 2,035 | #634 of 817 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 46.7% | #988 of 2,042 | #360 of 819 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.6% | #20 of 2,132 | #11 of 804 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.3% | #523 of 1,461 | #303 of 661 |
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
277
-72 (-21%) vs 2020
+8% since 1990-91, when it was 256
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 | 277 | 19 | 14.6:1 | 100% (276) |
| 2023-24 | 297 | 25.1 | 11.8:1 | 98% (292) |
| 2022-23 | 321 | 23.5 | 13.7:1 | 99% (318) |
| 2020-21 | 349 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 339 | 27.5 | 12.3:1 | 98% (331) |
| 2015-16 | 340 | 25 | 13.6:1 | 86% (291) |
| 2010-11 | 328 | 19 | 17.3:1 | 84% (277) |
| 2000-01 | 286 | 17 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 256 | 16 | 16.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison School.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (339 to 277); teachers down 31% (27.5 to 19).
About Madison School
Madison School is a small elementary school in South Holland, Illinois. Classes run from 4 through 5, and the school has 277 students. Against the 381-student average for elementary schools in Illinois, enrollment here is 27% lower.
Enrollment across the 4 schools in South Holland SD 151 totals 1,319 students.
Roughly 65% of students at Madison School are Black. Other groups include 34% Hispanic. By comparison, Cook County residents are about 22% Black. Madison School's diversity index is 47%, against a US figure of 70%.
Madison School operates with 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, a ratio of about 14.6:1. That matches the 13.9:1 average for elementary schools in Illinois fairly closely. Madison School reports 100% of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The gap from the 66% average for public schools in Cook County is 34 points.
Madison School is graded B by allk12, scoring above 63% of Illinois public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
A school in Illinois with Madison School's free or reduced-price lunch share would be expected to score about 14.0%. Madison School scores 34.5%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Cook County show that the median household income is $83,498, about 43% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 10%. Besides Madison School, Cook County has 1,405 other public schools.
The school nearest to Madison School is Thornridge High School, at a distance of about 0.8 miles. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Ranked by average proficiency, Madison School places 2nd out of 9 schools in its immediate area.
On the NCES locale scale, the school is Suburb: Large.
Enrollment has fallen by 72 students since 2020-21, to 277.
Families, students, and staff can use this page to discuss school safety, transportation, and start times at Madison School. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Cook County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
5,182,090
Census ACS
Median income
$83,498
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
43%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
1,406
697,934 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Holland SD 151
- Coolidge Middle SchoolMiddle · 460 students
- Taft SchoolElementary · 308 students
- Eisenhower SchoolElementary · 274 students
Other schools in South Holland
- Thornwood High SchoolHigh · 1,843 students
- Greenwood Elementary SchoolElementary · 321 students
- New Beginnings Learning AcademyElementary · 288 students
- McKinley Jr High SchoolMiddle · 287 students
- Eisenhower SchoolElementary · 274 students
- McKinley Elementary SchoolElementary · 176 students
Other Madison schools
3 other US public schools in 3 states are named Madison. Madison School is the 3rd largest of the 4.
- Madison SchoolDixon, IL · 323 students
- Madison SchoolBridgeport, CT · 451 students
- Madison SchoolWYANDOTTE, MI · 153 students
Nearby schools
- Thornridge High School0.8 mi · 969
- Eisenhower School0.9 mi · 274
- Coolidge Middle School1.1 mi · 460
- Franklin Elementary School1.2 mi · 259
- Diekman Elementary School1.3 mi · 227
- Berger-Vandenberg Elementary School1.3 mi · 266
Frequently asked questions
About Madison SchoolWhat is the total enrollment at Madison School?
Madison School enrolls approximately 277 students in grades 04-05.
What grades does Madison School serve?
Madison School serves grades 04-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Madison School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Madison School is approximately 14.6:1 (19 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Madison School?
Student demographics at Madison School are roughly 34% Hispanic, 65% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
What district is Madison School in?
Madison School is part of South Holland SD 151.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.