Madison Elementary

Madison Elementary is one of the middle-of-the-pack primary schools in Mount Vernon, Washington, run under Mount Vernon School District, with 498 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 31% bigger than the state mean of about 380.

Across the 14 schools in Mount Vernon School District (6,326 students total), Madison Elementary accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, Madison Elementary shows that 79% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest reads as 19% White. By comparison, Skagit County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.4:1. The state averages around 17.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is north of Skagit County's rate of about 56%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Madison Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 34.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 30.4%.

Across the wider county, census data for Skagit County shows median household earnings sit near $89,263, roughly 30% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Madison Elementary is one of 54 public schools in Skagit County (combined enrollment of about 18,298 students).

The closest other public school is Mount Vernon High School, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Elementary. On composite proficiency, Madison Elementary comes 3rd of 4 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 30.9%.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 6%: 531 students in 2018 compared to 498 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 71% to 79%. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 16.8:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

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