Madison Elementary School

Madison Elementary School is a K-5 school of medium-sized scale in Davenport, Iowa, overseen by Davenport Comm School District, teacheing 318 students in grades K through 5.

Davenport Comm School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 12,812 students. Madison Elementary School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Madison Elementary School reports that the largest single group is Black at 40%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder reads as 22% White, 20% multiracial, 16% Hispanic. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 7%.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 27 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 11.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. An estimated 81% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Scott County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

After controlling for student poverty, Madison Elementary School is in the bottom 10% of Iowa public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 51.7%; Madison Elementary School posts 27.8%, -23.8 points below that line.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Scott County indicate the typical household earns roughly $78,277 per year, 37% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Madison Elementary School is one of 53 public schools in Scott County (combined enrollment of about 26,100 students).

The closest other public school is Central High School, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Madison Elementary School comes 5th of 6 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 46.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Madison Elementary School has decreased 23%, going from 411 students in 2018 to 318 in 2025. The White share of enrollment shrank from 31% to 22% over that span. Class-load math has tightened: from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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