Enrollment
203
Elementary
DISTRICT 329 · STATE 380
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OLYMPIA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 530618000929
Madison Elementary School
1225 LEGION WAY SE, OLYMPIA, WA 98501 · (360) 596-6300 · Thurston County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL203 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
12 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.0:1 · STATE 17.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
44%
89 students
DISTRICT 35% · STATE 51%
Community
0
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 | 43 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 34 | 17% |
| Grade 2 | 24 | 12% |
| Grade 3 | 31 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 31 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 40 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (43) is 8% larger than its 5th grade class (40).
Student demographics
66%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
59.2%
WA avg 58.4% . +5.4pp since 2014
Math
41.8%
WA avg 51.2% . -13.1pp since 2014
What this means: On the Smarter Balanced + WCAS, Washington's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 42 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Washington schools, those numbers are about 58 and 51. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2014, while math scores are down about 13 points.
Smarter Balanced + WCAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.2% | 41.8% |
| 2023-24 | 41.0% | 36.0% |
| 2022-23 | 53.9% | 38.5% |
| 2021-22 | 52.7% | 42.7% |
| 2018-19 | 64.0% | 52.3% |
| 2017-18 | 76.0% | 69.6% |
| 2016-17 | 71.7% | 65.2% |
| 2015-16 | 54.0% | 58.0% |
| 2014-15 | 53.9% | 54.8% |
% 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
48.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
50.8%
based on WA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-2.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 48% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% 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 School
Madison Elementary School's state test result (48.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Elementary School this school | 203 | 43.8% | 48.3% |
| Mt View Elementary Edgewood | 279 | 42.7% | 55.1% |
| Sunnyland Elementary School Bellingham | 288 | 44.1% | 49.7% |
| Southside Elementary Shelton | 208 | 44.7% | 47.2% |
| Meriwether Elementary School JBLM Lewis North | 240 | 45.8% | 58.4% |
| Early Childhood Education Center VANCOUVER | 217 | 49.8% | N/A |
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 School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Washington | In Thurston County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 48.3% | #460 of 936 | #24 of 39 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 41.8% | #607 of 1,103 ▲ 115 | #27 of 39 ▲ 7 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.2% | #319 of 1,102 ▲ 379 | #9 of 39 ▲ 25 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +2.8pp | #387 of 928 | #14 of 39 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 203 | #1,088 of 1,268 | #40 of 43 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.4:1 | #896 of 1,085 | #31 of 40 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 65.6% | #395 of 1,088 | #16 of 39 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 43.8% | #738 of 1,169 | #23 of 43 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.3% | #265 of 778 | #5 of 27 |
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
203
-28 (-12%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 233
Student : Teacher
17.4:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 203 | 11.7 | 17.4:1 | 44% (89) |
| 2023-24 | 200 | 13.5 | 14.8:1 | 48% (96) |
| 2022-23 | 197 | 15.3 | 12.9:1 | 44% (86) |
| 2020-21 | 231 | 17 | 13.6:1 | 34% (78) |
| 2017-18 | 258 | 15.8 | 16.4:1 | 45% (115) |
| 2015-16 | 238 | 14 | 17.0:1 | 47% (112) |
| 2010-11 | 182 | 12 | 15.2:1 | 53% (96) |
| 2000-01 | 222 | 14 | 15.9:1 | N/A |
| 1990-91 | 233 | 12 | 19.4:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 21% (258 to 203); teachers down 26% (15.8 to 11.7).
About Madison Elementary School
Madison Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in OLYMPIA, Washington. It serves 203 students in pre-K through 5. The average among elementary schools in Washington is roughly 380 students; this school is 47% smaller than that.
The district, Olympia School District, has 9,386 students enrolled across 20 schools.
Madison Elementary School's enrollment is 52% White. The remaining shares are 22% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 8% Asian, and 3% Black. Census estimates put the White share of Thurston County's population at about 72%. By the diversity index, Madison Elementary School comes in at 66%.
The school employs the equivalent of 11.7 full-time teachers, for a ratio of 17.4:1. Elementary schools in Washington have a similar average ratio of 17.3:1. The free or reduced-price lunch share, often used to gauge student poverty, is 44%. Across public schools in Thurston County, the average is about the same, 43%.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, Madison Elementary School is 2.5 points below the average proficiency rate on state tests predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 48.3% actual, 50.8% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in Washington.
Among Thurston County residents, median household income is about $96,563, about 39% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Madison Elementary School is one of 86 public schools in Thurston County, which together enroll about 44,412 students.
The school nearest to Madison Elementary School is Avanti High School, at a distance of less than a tenth of a mile. Within five miles of Madison Elementary School, there are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Madison Elementary School ranks 4th of 6 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Madison Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
The 2024-25 enrollment of 203 was 12% lower than in 2020-21, when it was 231. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio rose from 13.6:1 to 17.4:1.
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Thurston County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
299,067
Census ACS
Median income
$96,563
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
39%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
86
44,412 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Olympia School District
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 469 students
- Jefferson Middle SchoolMiddle · 462 students
- Centennial ElementaryElementary · 434 students
Other schools in OLYMPIA
- Olympia High SchoolHigh · 1,901 students
- Capital High SchoolHigh · 1,322 students
- Washington Middle SchoolMiddle · 702 students
- Griffin SchoolElementary · 585 students
- East Olympia ElementaryElementary · 579 students
- Thurgood Marshall Middle SchoolMiddle · 469 students
Other Madison Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 27 states are named Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary School is the 52nd largest of the 60.
- Madison ElementaryMount Vernon, WA · 498 students
- Madison ElementaryEverett, WA · 405 students
- Madison ElementarySpokane, WA · 250 students
- Madison ElementaryNorth Highlands, CA · 754 students
- Madison Elementary SchoolADRIAN, MI · 753 students
Nearby schools
- Avanti High School0.1 mi · 167
- Roosevelt Elementary School0.9 mi · 340
- Olympia Regional Learning Academy1.0 mi · 345
- Lincoln Elementary School1.1 mi · 300
- Touchstone1.3 mi · 2
- Reeves Middle School1.4 mi · 394
Frequently asked questions
About Madison Elementary SchoolHow large is Madison Elementary School?
Madison Elementary School enrolls approximately 203 students in grades PK-05.
Is Madison Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Madison Elementary School have?
Madison Elementary School employs 12 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.4:1.
What is the student diversity at Madison Elementary School?
Student demographics at Madison Elementary School are roughly 52% White, 22% Hispanic, 3% Black, 8% Asian, 14% Two or more.
Who oversees Madison Elementary School?
Madison Elementary School is overseen by Olympia School District in Thurston County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.