Gompers Elementary

Gompers Elementary is one of the low-enrollment elementary campuss in Madison, Wisconsin, operated by Madison Metropolitan School District, with 217 students on its rolls from grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Gompers Elementary sits 33% smaller than that benchmark.

Madison Metropolitan School District runs 53 schools in total, collectively educating 25,155 students. Gompers Elementary is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, Gompers Elementary reports that 47% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 20% Black, 17% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 3% Asian. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Gompers Elementary has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 49% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Dane County's rate of about 32%.

With demographic context factored in, Gompers Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 47.4%, the actual is 45.1%, a residual of -2.3 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Dane County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Gompers Elementary is one campus in the mix.

Black Hawk Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Gompers Elementary comes 1st of 6 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 30.5%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Gompers Elementary has ticked down 8%, going from 236 students in 2018 to 217 in 2025.

On allk12, members of the Gompers Elementary community share and discuss open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.