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Enrollment
770
Middle
DISTRICT 753 · STATE 643
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ABILENE ISD·NCES 480744000030
Madison Middle School
3145 BARROW ST, ABILENE, TX 79605 · (325) 692-5661 · Taylor County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL770 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
48 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.1:1 · STATE 14.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
60%
461 students
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 65%
Community
1
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 | 260 | 34% |
| Grade 7 | 268 | 35% |
| Grade 8 | 242 | 31% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 65% · STATE 63% · 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
Test scores
STAAR 2025-26 . % Meets Grade Level or AboveReading
47.0%
TX avg 54.5% . +16.0pp since 2020
Mathematics
33.0%
TX avg 45.3% . +4.0pp since 2020
What this means: On the STAAR, Texas's statewide test, about 47 of every 100 students at this school read at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Texas schools, those numbers are about 55 and 45. Reading scores are up about 16 points since 2020, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2025-26
| Subject | Masters Grade Level | Meets Grade Level | Approaches Grade Level | Did Not Meet Grade Level |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reading | 20.0% | 27.0% | 28.0% | 25.0% |
| Mathematics | 10.0% | 23.0% | 25.0% | 42.0% |
Share of tested students at each STAAR level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
STAAR results by year
| School year | Reading | Mathematics |
|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 47.0% | 33.0% |
| 2024-25 | 44.0% | 29.0% |
| 2023-24 | 44.0% | 32.0% |
| 2022-23 | 36.0% | 33.0% |
| 2021-22 | 41.0% | 38.0% |
| 2020-21 | 31.0% | 29.0% |
% Meets Grade Level or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: STAAR. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of TX schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
32.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.1%
based on TX schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 33% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 48% typical for Texas schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
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
Madison Middle School's state test result (32.9% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Middle School this school | 770 | 59.9% | 32.9% |
| Clear Creek Intermediate School LEAGUE CITY | 653 | 56.8% | 41.5% |
| Evans Middle School LUBBOCK | 773 | 55.9% | 44.0% |
| Leland E Edge Middle School NEVADA | 662 | 54.8% | 36.6% |
| Rockport-Fulton Middle School ROCKPORT | 665 | 62.3% | 38.9% |
| Pampa Junior High School PAMPA | 680 | 63.1% | 32.6% |
Matched among Texas 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 ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Texas | In Taylor County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.9% | #1,274 of 1,635 | #7 of 9 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.0% | #1,227 of 1,670 ▲ 88 | #6 of 9 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 47.0% | #1,160 of 1,670 ▲ 58 | #7 of 9 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +5.5pp | #1,051 of 1,570 | #4 of 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 770 | #619 of 1,749 | #4 of 9 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.9:1 | #1,097 of 1,542 | #6 of 9 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #409 of 1,543 | #3 of 9 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 59.9% | #946 of 1,648 | #4 of 9 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -22.1% | #284 of 942 | #1 of 6 |
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
770
-95 (-11%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 822
Student : Teacher
15.9:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 770 | 48.3 | 15.9:1 | 60% (461) |
| 2023-24 | 778 | 51.4 | 15.1:1 | 70% (547) |
| 2022-23 | 785 | 57.2 | 13.7:1 | 66% (520) |
| 2020-21 | 865 | 62 | 13.9:1 | 68% (586) |
| 2017-18 | 989 | 63.3 | 15.6:1 | 76% (749) |
| 2015-16 | 949 | 62 | 15.3:1 | 61% (581) |
| 2010-11 | 925 | 72 | 12.8:1 | 57% (526) |
| 2000-01 | 740 | 56 | 13.2:1 | 31% (227) |
| 1990-91 | 822 | 60 | 13.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (989 to 770); teachers down 24% (63.3 to 48.3).
About Madison Middle School
Madison Middle School is a middle school located in ABILENE, Texas, in Taylor County. It enrolled 770 students in grades 6 through 8 for the 2024-25 school year.
ABILENE ISD is responsible for 26 schools, Madison Middle School included, with 14,536 students in all.
No single group makes up more than half of enrollment at Madison Middle School. The largest is Hispanic students, at 45%. The next largest groups are 40% White, 8% Black, and 4% multiracial. In Taylor County overall, about 25% of residents are Hispanic. Pick two students at random and there is a 63% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.
Staffing totals 48.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 15.9:1. On average, middle schools in Texas have 14.4:1, compared with 15.9:1 here. The free or reduced-price lunch rate at Madison Middle School is 60%.
Madison Middle School scores 15.2 points below its predicted average proficiency rate on state tests: 32.9% actual versus 48.1% predicted. That puts it in the bottom 10% of Texas schools on BeatsExpectations.
Taylor County has about 145,863 residents, and the median household income is $67,139, about 29% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 11%. In all, Taylor County has 54 public schools and roughly 24,159 students.
Alcorta Elementary School is located about 0.2 miles from Madison Middle School. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. On proficiency, Madison Middle School is behind the 42.6% nearby average, ranking 5th of 6.
The NCES locale for Madison Middle School is City: Mid-size, which covers schools inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Enrollment is down 11% from 2020-21, when Madison Middle School had 865 students, to 2024-25, when it had 770. Students per teacher rose from 13.9 in 2020-21 to 15.9 in 2024-25.
Questions about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news can be posted here. Questions from prospective families are welcome too.
Taylor County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
145,863
Census ACS
Median income
$67,139
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
29%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
24,159 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in ABILENE ISD
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
- Craig Middle SchoolMiddle · 771 students
- Austin Elementary SchoolElementary · 729 students
- Clack Middle SchoolMiddle · 693 students
Other schools in ABILENE
- Abilene High SchoolHigh · 1,798 students
- Cooper High SchoolHigh · 1,570 students
- Wylie High SchoolHigh · 1,537 students
- Wylie West Junior High SchoolMiddle · 1,038 students
- Texas Leadership of AbileneCombined · 834 students
- Mann Middle SchoolMiddle · 776 students
Other Madison Middle schools
22 other US public schools in 20 states are named Madison Middle. Madison Middle School is the 7th 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
- Alcorta Elementary School0.2 mi · 410
- Premier H S of Abilene0.5 mi · 176
- Texasworks - Abilene0.5 mi · 36
- Cooper High School0.8 mi · 1,570
- Austin Elementary School1.0 mi · 729
- Bowie Elementary School1.2 mi · 473
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Middle SchoolHow many students attend Madison Middle School?
Madison Middle School enrolls approximately 770 students in grades 06-08.
What grades does Madison Middle School serve?
Madison Middle School serves grades 06-08.
How many students per teacher at Madison Middle School?
Approximately 15.9:1 students per teacher at Madison Middle School.
How diverse is Madison Middle School?
Madison Middle School reports a student body of 40% White, 45% Hispanic, 8% Black, 2% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Who oversees Madison Middle School?
Madison Middle School is overseen by ABILENE ISD in Taylor County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.