Madison Elementary

Located at 3600 Hines Chapel Road, in McLeansville, North Carolina, Madison Elementary is a modestly sized K-5 school that works with 204 students (grades K through 5), part of Guilford County Schools. That puts it 56% smaller than the typical public school in North Carolina, which averages around 467 students.

Guilford County Schools runs 123 schools in total, collectively educating 68,535 students. Madison Elementary is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, Madison Elementary records that the most-represented group is Black (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder consists of 27% White, 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 34%.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.9:1 average. An estimated 99% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Guilford County runs at roughly 89%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Madison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 48.8%, the actual is 40.3%, a residual of -8.5 points.

In the broader community, Guilford County reports that the typical household earns roughly $68,642 per year, about 39% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. Madison Elementary is one of 143 public schools in Guilford County (combined enrollment of about 79,539 students).

Nearest neighbor: Northeast Guilford High, around 1.5 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Madison Elementary at 3rd of 6; the average score across the group is 38.4%.

Geographically, the school is in an outlying area.

Five-year trend. Madison Elementary's enrollment has fell 10% since 2018, when it stood at 227 (now 204). The White share of enrollment edged down from 41% to 27% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.8:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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