Madison Senior High School

Madison Senior High School operates as a micro-enrollment high school in Madison, Illinois, one of the schools within Madison CUSD 12. Current enrollment sits at 152 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 82% smaller than the state mean of about 834.

Madison CUSD 12 comprises 3 schools with combined enrollment of 613 students; Madison Senior High School is among them.

Demographically, Madison Senior High School reports that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic, 3% White. By comparison, Madison County as a whole is about 8% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.8:1, putting Madison Senior High School tighter than the state norm the norm. About 99% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Madison County's rate of about 46%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Senior High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 14.2%, the actual is 10.3%, a residual of -3.9 points.

In the area at large, census data for Madison County shows the typical household earns roughly $75,793 per year, about 31% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Madison Senior High School is one of 84 public schools in Madison County (combined enrollment of about 35,253 students).

Nearest neighbor: Madison Jr High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Senior High School. On composite proficiency, Madison Senior High School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 12.3%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Madison Senior High School's enrollment has declined 10% since 2018, when it stood at 169 (now 152). Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.1:1 in 2018 to 8.4:1 in 2025.

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