Enrollment
270
Middle
DISTRICT 390 · STATE 187
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 39-2·NCES 463960000364
Madison Middle School - 02
830 NE 9th St, Madison, SD 57042 · (605) 256-7717 · Lake County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNREGULAR SCHOOL270 STUDENTS
B
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Scored higher than 57% of South Dakota public middle schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded South Dakota public middle schools
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
22 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 14.2:1 · STATE 13.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
23%
63 students
DISTRICT 24% · STATE 42%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 90 | 33% |
| Grade 7 | 96 | 36% |
| Grade 8 | 84 | 31% |
Student demographics
31%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 32% · STATE 53% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
Madison Middle School - 02→Madison High School - 01
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within Madison Central School District 39-2. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
SD Smarter Balanced 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
59.3%
SD avg 50.3% . +7.7pp since 2022
Math
43.8%
SD avg 47.5% . +3.2pp since 2022
What this means: On the SD Smarter Balanced, South Dakota's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all South Dakota schools, those numbers are about 50 and 47. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 3 points.
SD Smarter Balanced results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.3% | 43.8% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 45.6% |
| 2022-23 | 51.6% | 40.6% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SD Smarter Balanced. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
49.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.5%
based on SD schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 49% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 53% typical for South Dakota 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 South Dakota's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Madison Middle School - 02
Madison Middle School - 02's state test result (49.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Middle School - 02 this school | 270 | 23.3% | 49.5% |
| Milbank Middle School - 02 Milbank | 222 | 26.6% | 53.0% |
| Beresford Middle School - 03 Beresford | 153 | 22.2% | 33.9% |
| Lead-Deadwood Middle School - 02 Lead | 139 | 25.2% | 43.2% |
| Stagebarn Middle School - 10 Summerset | 432 | 28.2% | 46.6% |
| West Middle School - 37 Rapid City | 591 | 27.2% | 44.2% |
Matched among South Dakota middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Madison Middle School - 02 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In South Dakota |
|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 49.5% | #28 of 64 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #38 of 64 ▼ 10 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.3% | #21 of 65 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 270 | #40 of 165 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.2:1 | #6 of 42 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 30.5% | #33 of 42 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 23.3% | #43 of 65 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #25 of 26 |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
270
-7 (-3%) vs 2020
+29% since 1990-91, when it was 209
Student : Teacher
12.2:1
was 13.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 270 | 22.1 | 12.2:1 | 23% (63) |
| 2023-24 | 274 | 22.1 | 12.4:1 | 23% (64) |
| 2022-23 | 257 | 21.6 | 11.9:1 | 20% (51) |
| 2020-21 | 277 | 21 | 13.2:1 | 25% (68) |
| 2017-18 | 277 | 20.1 | 13.8:1 | 31% (86) |
| 2015-16 | 277 | 20 | 13.8:1 | 32% (90) |
| 2010-11 | 271 | 22 | 12.3:1 | 27% (74) |
| 2000-01 | 330 | 22 | 15.0:1 | 22% (73) |
| 1990-91 | 209 | 13 | 16.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Middle School - 02.
Since 2017-18: students down 3% (277 to 270); teachers up 10% (20.1 to 22.1).
About Madison Middle School - 02
Madison Middle School - 02 is one of the public schools in Madison, South Dakota. It is a mid-sized middle school. The school has 270 students in 2024-25 across grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in South Dakota enroll about 187 students on average.
Madison Central School District 39-2 has 1,169 students in 3 schools, and Madison Middle School - 02 is one of those schools.
White students account for 83% of the school's enrollment. After that, the student body is 10% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Among all residents of Lake County, the White share is about 91%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 31%.
On staff are 22.1 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 12.2:1. Middle schools in South Dakota have an average ratio of 13.4:1. About 23% of students at Madison Middle School - 02 are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 23% average for public schools in Lake County.
Madison Middle School - 02 earns a B on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 57% of South Dakota public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Madison Middle School - 02 is -4.0 points: 49.5% actual, 53.5% predicted.
The county, Lake County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $76,808 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 35%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Counting Madison Middle School - 02, Lake County has 21 public schools.
Madison High School - 01 is the nearest public school to Madison Middle School - 02, less than a tenth of a mile away. Within five miles of Madison Middle School - 02, there are 2 other public schools. Of 5 schools in the immediate area with test results, Madison Middle School - 02 ranks 3rd on average proficiency.
The school's locale code, Town: Distant, means it is in a town some distance from an urbanized area.
By 2024-25, enrollment had dropped to 270, from 277 in 2020-21.
Madison Middle School - 02 has a community page on allk12 for topics such as pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Teachers and staff are welcome to share updates too.
Lake County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
10,972
Census ACS
Median income
$76,808
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
21
2,009 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison Central School District 39-2
- Madison Elementary - 07Elementary · 515 students
- Madison High School - 01High · 384 students
Other schools in Madison
- Madison Elementary - 07Elementary · 515 students
- Madison High School - 01High · 384 students
- Rustic Acres Elementary - 04Elementary · 41 students
Other Madison Middle schools
22 other US public schools in 20 states are named Madison Middle. Madison Middle School - 02 is the 20th largest of the 23.
- Madison Middle SchoolMADISON, MS · 1,180 students
- Madison MiddleOceanside, CA · 1,158 students
- Madison Middle SchoolSEATTLE, WA · 1,017 students
- Madison MiddleAppleton, WI · 929 students
- MADISON MIDDLE SCHOOLREXBURG, ID · 878 students
Nearby schools
- Madison High School - 010.0 mi · 384
- Madison Elementary - 071.0 mi · 515
- Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Jr. High8.5 mi · 41
- Oldham-Ramona-Rutland High School8.5 mi · 77
- Oldham-Ramona-Rutland Elementary8.5 mi · 116
- Rustic Acres Elementary - 0410.0 mi · 41
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Middle School - 02How many students attend Madison Middle School - 02?
Madison Middle School - 02 enrolls approximately 270 students in grades 06-08.
Is Madison Middle School - 02 an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Middle School - 02 is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Madison Middle School - 02?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Madison Middle School - 02 is approximately 12.2:1 (22 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Madison Middle School - 02?
Student demographics at Madison Middle School - 02 are roughly 83% White, 10% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is Madison Middle School - 02 in?
Madison Middle School - 02 is part of Madison Central School District 39-2.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.