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Madison Middle School
Test scores
Ohio's State Tests 2024-25 . % Proficient or AboveWhat this means: On the Ohio's State Tests, Ohio's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 62 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Ohio schools, those numbers are about 60 and 56. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2021, while math scores are down about 5 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 63% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 70% typical for Ohio 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 Ohio's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Madison Middle School
Set in Madison, Ohio, Madison Middle School is a mid-sized middle school, one of the schools within Madison Local. It caters to 605 students across grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 26% larger than the state mean of about 482.
Madison Local comprises 14 schools with combined enrollment of 6,747 students; Madison Middle School is among them.
For racial and ethnic makeup, Madison Middle School logs that 84% of students identify as White, making the school strongly White-majority. Other groups include 7% multiracial, 6% Hispanic. Compared to Lake County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.
On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Madison Middle School has 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.3:1. The state averages around 17.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Lake County runs at roughly 39%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, Madison Middle School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 70.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 62.8%.
In the area at large, the surrounding county (Lake County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,925 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Madison Middle School is one of 65 public schools in Lake County (combined enrollment of about 27,899 students).
The closest other public school is Madison High School, roughly 0.2 miles away. 7 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madison Middle School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 71.2%.
The school occupies a rural site.
Trend over the last 7 years. Madison Middle School's enrollment has contracted 18% since 2018, when it stood at 737 (now 605).
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