Madison Middle School

Madison Middle School is a well-populated intermediate school in SEATTLE, Washington, part of Seattle School District No. 1. The school works with 1,017 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 76% above the state mean of about 577.

Seattle School District No. 1 runs 107 schools in total, collectively educating 50,773 students. Madison Middle School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Madison Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 62% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 16% multiracial, 11% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% Black.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 22.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 18.9:1 average. Roughly 17% of students at Madison Middle School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against King County (around 38%), the school's rate is somewhat below typical.

With demographic context factored in, Madison Middle School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 69.0%, the actual is 68.7%, a residual of -0.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (King County) records that the typical household earns roughly $124,746 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. In all, King County runs 544 public schools (combined enrollment of about 278,492 students), of which Madison Middle School is one.

West Seattle High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Madison Middle School. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Madison Middle School ranks 5th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 65.2%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Five-year trend. Madison Middle School's enrollment has edged up 15% since 2018, when it stood at 881 (now 1,017). The Black share of enrollment contracted from 10% to 4% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 19.6:1 in 2018 to 22.4:1 in 2025.

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