Madison Elementary School

Madison Elementary School, a high-enrollment elementary-level community in Middletown, Ohio, one of the schools within Madison Local, instructs 711 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 76% bigger than the typical public school in Ohio, which averages around 404 students.

Madison Elementary School is one of 14 schools operated by Madison Local, a district that hosts 6,747 students overall.

On demographics, Madison Elementary School reports that the student body is overwhelmingly White (88%). Beyond that, the school logs 6% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 76% White, putting the school's mix considerably more White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 18.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 17.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 52% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Butler County's rate of about 42%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.3%, the actual is 75.6%, a residual of +6.3 points.

Around the school, ACS estimates for Butler County put the typical household earns roughly $81,590 per year, 33% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Across Butler County's 90 public schools (combined enrollment of about 59,107 students), Madison Elementary School is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Madison High School, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Elementary School.

Geographically, the school is in a rural area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Madison Elementary School has fell 18%, going from 866 students in 2018 to 711 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 96% to 88%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 18.2:1 in 2025.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.