MADELIA ELEMENTARY

MADELIA ELEMENTARY is one of the mid-tier primary schools in MADELIA, Minnesota, one of the schools within MADELIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT, with 352 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 6.

MADELIA PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 2 schools with combined enrollment of 646 students; MADELIA ELEMENTARY is among them.

In terms of who attends, MADELIA ELEMENTARY shows that the most-represented group is Hispanic (53%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 45% White. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 30%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, MADELIA ELEMENTARY has 28 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.7:1 average. Around 55% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, MADELIA ELEMENTARY performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.3%, the actual is 33.3%, a residual of -2.0 points.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Watonwan County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,699 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. MADELIA ELEMENTARY is one of 8 public schools in Watonwan County (combined enrollment of about 2,002 students).

Nearest neighbor: MADELIA SECONDARY, around 0.3 miles off. 3 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. On composite proficiency, MADELIA ELEMENTARY comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a small-town area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 4%: 338 students in 2018 compared to 352 in 2025. The White share of enrollment declined from 52% to 45% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 14.0:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 in 2025.

On this page, the feed for MADELIA ELEMENTARY typically covers science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.