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What's one thing Madison Heights Elementary gets right about preparing students for what comes next?
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Enrollment
449
Elementary
DISTRICT 303 · STATE 499
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·AMHERST COUNTY PUBLIC SCHOOLS·NCES 510021000010
Madison Heights Elementary
287 Learning Lane, Madison Heights, VA 24572 · (434) 846-2151 · Amherst County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY22-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL449 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 16% of Virginia public elementary schools
- C-Test 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 Virginia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
32 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.0:1 · STATE 13.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
84%
377 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 66%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 92 | 20% |
| Kindergarten | 63 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 69 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 58 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 57 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 55 | 12% |
This year's kindergarten class (63) is 15% larger than its 5th grade class (55).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 55% · STATE 71% · 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
SOL 2024-25 . % PassingEnglish Language Arts
59.0%
VA avg 74.2% . -13.0pp since 2022
Math
59.0%
VA avg 72.7% . +4.0pp since 2022
What this means: On the SOL, Virginia's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Virginia schools, those numbers are about 74 and 73. Reading and writing scores are down about 13 points since 2022, while math scores are up about 4 points.
SOL results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 59.0% |
| 2023-24 | 63.0% | 56.0% |
| 2022-23 | 72.0% | 55.0% |
% Passing, all students and all tested grades.
Source: SOL. 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
54.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
65.2%
based on VA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 55% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 65% typical for Virginia 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 Virginia'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 Heights Elementary
Madison Heights Elementary's state test result (54.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Heights Elementary this school | 449 | 84.0% | 54.8% |
| Amelon Elementary Madison Heights | 415 | 83.6% | 52.1% |
| Madison Elementary Ruther Glen | 456 | 82.7% | 66.5% |
| Altavista Elementary Altavista | 497 | 78.1% | 74.3% |
| Southside Elementary Blairs | 428 | 83.6% | 89.0% |
| G.W. Carver Elementary Salem | 404 | 88.4% | 81.4% |
Matched among Virginia elementary 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 Heights Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Virginia | In Amherst County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.8% | #918 of 1,101 | N/A |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #902 of 1,111 ▼ 6 | N/A |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #860 of 1,111 ▼ 83 | N/A |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 449 | #705 of 1,176 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.0:1 | #568 of 1,105 | N/A |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.8% | #376 of 1,106 | N/A |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 84.0% | #442 of 1,157 | N/A |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +3.2% | #248 of 324 | N/A |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
449
+67 (+18%) vs 2020
-1% since 2000-01, when it was 452
Student : Teacher
14.0:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 449 | 32 | 14.0:1 | 84% (377) |
| 2023-24 | 429 | 32 | 13.4:1 | 80% (345) |
| 2022-23 | 418 | 34.5 | 12.1:1 | 77% (323) |
| 2020-21 | 382 | 23 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 435 | 31 | 14.0:1 | 76% (329) |
| 2015-16 | 496 | 32 | 15.5:1 | 74% (368) |
| 2010-11 | 474 | 29 | 16.3:1 | 72% (341) |
| 2000-01 | 452 | 31 | 14.6:1 | 44% (198) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Heights Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students up 3% (435 to 449); teachers up 3% (31 to 32).
About Madison Heights Elementary
Madison Heights Elementary runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Madison Heights, Virginia. The school teaches pre-K through 5 and enrolls 449 students.
Amherst County Public Schools is the local district for Madison Heights Elementary. It runs 9 schools with 3,900 students.
Of every 100 students at Madison Heights Elementary, about 49 are White, the largest group. Smaller groups are 28% Black, 12% multiracial, and 10% Hispanic. For comparison, the population of Amherst County is roughly 74% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 66%.
Madison Heights Elementary has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.0:1, with 32 full-time-equivalent teachers. That is in line with the 13.8:1 average for elementary schools in Virginia. The school has 84% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Amherst County is similar, at 82%.
On the allk12 Grade, Madison Heights Elementary lands at C-, ahead of 16% of Virginia public elementary schools.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 65.2% at Madison Heights Elementary; the school's average proficiency rate across its state test results is 54.8%.
In Amherst County, median household income comes to about $68,724, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Amherst County counts 10 public schools with about 3,900 students.
Measured in a straight line, Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation is about 1.8 miles from Madison Heights Elementary. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The nearest schools with test data average 58.0%, higher than Madison Heights Elementary's 54.8%.
The school's locale code, Suburb: Mid-size, means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was an 18% gain, from 382 to 449. The student-to-teacher ratio dropped from 16.6:1 in 2020-21 to 14.0:1 in 2024-25.
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Amherst County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
31,485
Census ACS
Median income
$68,724
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
10
3,900 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Amherst County Public Schools
- Amherst County HighHigh · 1,240 students
- Monelison MiddleMiddle · 469 students
- Amelon ElementaryElementary · 415 students
- Amherst MiddleMiddle · 371 students
- Amherst ElementaryElementary · 307 students
- Elon ElementaryElementary · 288 students
Other schools in Madison Heights
- Monelison MiddleMiddle · 469 students
- Amelon ElementaryElementary · 415 students
- Elon ElementaryElementary · 288 students
- Central Va. Training Ctr.Combined
Other Madison Heights Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Madison Heights Elementary. Madison Heights Elementary is the 2nd largest of the 2.
- Madison Heights Elementary SchoolPHOENIX, AZ · 630 students
Nearby schools
- Paul Laurence Dunbar Middle for Innovation1.8 mi · 531
- Monelison Middle1.9 mi · 469
- Robert S. Payne Elementary2.1 mi · 435
- Dearington Elementary/Innovation2.1 mi · 180
- E.C. Glass High2.5 mi · 1,220
- Amelon Elementary2.8 mi · 415
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Heights ElementaryHow large is Madison Heights Elementary?
Madison Heights Elementary enrolls approximately 449 students in grades PK-05.
Is Madison Heights Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Heights Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many students per teacher at Madison Heights Elementary?
Approximately 14.0:1 students per teacher at Madison Heights Elementary.
What is the student diversity at Madison Heights Elementary?
Student demographics at Madison Heights Elementary are roughly 49% White, 10% Hispanic, 28% Black, 12% Two or more.
What district is Madison Heights Elementary in?
Madison Heights Elementary is part of Amherst County Public Schools.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.