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Honest take: what's the hardest part about being a student at Madison Elementary?
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Enrollment
498
Elementary
DISTRICT 419 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MOUNT VERNON SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530540000812
Madison Elementary
400 53rd St, Mount Vernon, WA 98273 · (360) 428-6131 · Skagit County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL498 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
34 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.6:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
340 students
DISTRICT 68% · STATE 51%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 80 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 84 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 77 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 90 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 86 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (80) is 7% smaller than its 5th grade class (86).
Student demographics
34%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 54% · STATE 68% · 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
Smarter Balanced + WCAS 2024-25 . % Met or Exceeded StandardEnglish Language Arts
30.2%
WA avg 58.4% . -20.3pp since 2014
Math
23.7%
WA avg 51.2% . -30.0pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 30 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are down about 20 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 30 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 30.2% | 23.7% |
| 2023-24 | 31.2% | 27.6% |
| 2022-23 | 33.1% | 35.8% |
| 2021-22 | 32.5% | 27.6% |
| 2018-19 | 34.4% | 41.6% |
| 2017-18 | 36.5% | 43.1% |
| 2016-17 | 37.5% | 36.4% |
| 2015-16 | 39.6% | 46.5% |
| 2014-15 | 50.4% | 53.8% |
% Met or Exceeded Standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Smarter Balanced + WCAS. 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
30.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.4%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 30% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 34% typical for Washington 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 Washington'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 Elementary
Madison Elementary's state test result (30.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Elementary this school | 498 | 68.3% | 30.4% |
| Edison Elementary School WALLA WALLA | 464 | 72.2% | 38.9% |
| Mark Twain Elementary PASCO | 579 | 65.3% | 28.1% |
| Moxee Elementary Moxee | 515 | 64.9% | 54.4% |
| Fuerza Elementary Kennewick | 629 | 66.8% | N/A |
| Connell Elem Connell | 491 | 76.4% | 33.7% |
Matched among Washington 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 Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Skagit County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 30.4% | #794 of 936 | #20 of 24 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.7% | #981 of 1,103 ▼ 86 | #19 of 24 ▼ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 30.2% | #940 of 1,102 ▼ 21 | #20 of 24 ▼ 2 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -3.1pp | #217 of 928 | #12 of 24 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 498 | #294 of 1,268 | #3 of 28 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 14.4:1 | #217 of 1,085 | #6 of 21 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.1% | #985 of 1,088 | #19 of 21 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #291 of 1,169 | #8 of 24 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #647 of 778 | #15 of 16 |
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
498
-17 (-3%) vs 2020
-21% since 1990-91, when it was 630
Student : Teacher
14.4:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 498 | 34.5 | 14.4:1 | 68% (340) |
| 2023-24 | 498 | 34.8 | 14.3:1 | 65% (324) |
| 2022-23 | 512 | 34.2 | 15.0:1 | 63% (321) |
| 2020-21 | 515 | 33 | 15.6:1 | 58% (300) |
| 2017-18 | 531 | 31.7 | 16.8:1 | 60% (321) |
| 2015-16 | 532 | 29 | 18.3:1 | 65% (346) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 32 | 18.4:1 | 75% (443) |
| 2000-01 | 533 | 28 | 19.0:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 630 | 32 | 19.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (531 to 498); teachers up 9% (31.7 to 34.5).
About Madison Elementary
Madison Elementary is a medium-sized elementary school based in Mount Vernon, Washington. The school's enrollment of 498 students covers kindergarten through 5. Statewide, elementary schools in Washington average about 380 students each.
Mount Vernon School District oversees Madison Elementary and 13 other schools, with 6,326 students in total.
A majority of students at Madison Elementary, 79%, are Hispanic. Other reported shares: 19% White. Skagit County's residents are about 19% Hispanic, 60 points below the school's share. Madison Elementary has a diversity index of 34%, compared with 70% for all US public school students.
Teachers at the school number 34.5 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 14.4:1. Among elementary schools in Washington, the typical ratio is 17.3:1. The school's lunch program data list 68% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. The average for public schools in Skagit County is 56%.
Madison Elementary scores 30.4% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 34.4%.
According to the American Community Survey, in Skagit County, median household income is about $89,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 30% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 7%. Madison Elementary is one of 54 public schools in Skagit County, which together enroll about 18,298 students.
The closest public school, Mount Vernon High School, is about 0.4 miles from Madison Elementary. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 4 nearby schools with scores, including this one, Madison Elementary is 3rd on average proficiency.
Its NCES locale code is City: Small: the school is inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The number of students dropped from 515 to 498 over 4 years. The school's ratio fell from 15.6:1 to 14.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
Topics for discussion here include sports tryouts, band and choir, and theater. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Skagit County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
131,328
Census ACS
Median income
$89,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
30%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
54
18,298 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Mount Vernon School District
- Mount Vernon High SchoolHigh · 1,849 students
- La Venture Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Mount Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 445 students
- Harriet RowleyElementary · 440 students
- Centennial Elementary SchoolElementary · 430 students
Other schools in Mount Vernon
- Mount Vernon High SchoolHigh · 1,849 students
- La Venture Middle SchoolMiddle · 663 students
- Mount Baker Middle SchoolMiddle · 569 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 445 students
- Harriet RowleyElementary · 440 students
- Centennial Elementary SchoolElementary · 430 students
Other Madison Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 27 states are named Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary is the 13th largest of the 60.
- Madison ElementaryEverett, WA · 405 students
- Madison ElementarySpokane, WA · 250 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolOLYMPIA, WA · 203 students
- Madison ElementaryNorth Highlands, CA · 754 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolADRIAN, MI · 753 students
Nearby schools
- Mount Vernon High School0.4 mi · 1,849
- La Venture Middle School0.8 mi · 663
- Skagit County Detention Center0.8 mi · 4
- Northwest Career & Technical Academy/A WA Skills Center1.0 mi · 43
- Mount Vernon Special Ed1.0 mi · 152
- Open Doors1.0 mi · 12
Frequently asked questions
About Madison ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Madison Elementary?
Madison Elementary enrolls approximately 498 students in grades KG-05.
Is Madison Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Madison Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Madison Elementary is approximately 14.4:1 (34 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Madison Elementary?
Student demographics at Madison Elementary are roughly 19% White, 79% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Two or more.
What district is Madison Elementary in?
Madison Elementary is part of Mount Vernon School District.
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