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Madison Middle School
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Test scores
NC EOG / EOC 2024-25 . % Grade Level Proficient (Level 3+)What this means: On the NC EOG / EOC, North Carolina's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all North Carolina schools, those numbers are about 51 and 52.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% typical for North Carolina schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among North Carolina's top nor bottom 10%.
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SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Madison Middle School
As an intimate 6-8 campus in Marshall, North Carolina, Madison Middle School instructs 468 students from grades 6 through 8, overseen by Madison County Schools. By comparison, North Carolina's public schools average about 605 students each, so Madison Middle School sits 23% below that benchmark.
Within Madison County Schools, which oversees 7 schools and 2,063 students, Madison Middle School is one campus in the system.
On the student-mix side, Madison Middle School shows that 90% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. The remainder consists of 6% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Madison County as a whole.
Looking at school resources, Madison Middle School records 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.8:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 15.9:1 average. Roughly 99% of students at Madison Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Madison Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 48.5%; this one delivers 56.9%.
In the broader community, ACS estimates for Madison County put the typical household earns roughly $58,531 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 9%. Across Madison County's 7 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,063 students), Madison Middle School is one campus in the mix.
Brush Creek Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 4 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Madison Middle School at 4th of 8; the average score across the group is 59.0%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Over the past 7-year window. Madison Middle School's enrollment has edged down 5% since 2018, when it stood at 492 (now 468).
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Madison County at a glance
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- Brush Creek Elementary0.1 mi · 356
- Madison Early College High2.9 mi · 270
- Madison High School3.0 mi · 377
- Madison Velocity Learning Center3.0 mi · 19
- Hot Springs Elementary7.4 mi · 128
- Mars Hill Elementary9.2 mi · 445