Hamilton Middle

Hamilton Middle is a junior high of large scale in Madison, Wisconsin, overseen by Madison Metropolitan School District, instructing 790 students in grades 6 through 8. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 381 students each, so Hamilton Middle sits 107% above that benchmark.

Madison Metropolitan School District comprises 53 schools with combined enrollment of 25,155 students; Hamilton Middle is among them.

On the student-mix side, Hamilton Middle lists that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 9% Asian, 9% multiracial, 9% Hispanic, 7% Black. By comparison, Dane County as a whole is about 77% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Hamilton Middle records 55 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting Hamilton Middle higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 19% of students at Hamilton Middle qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Dane County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Hamilton Middle sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 65.8%; this one delivers 72.5%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Dane County) shows that median household income runs about $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), Hamilton Middle is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Van Hise Elementary, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Hamilton Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.9%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 792 students in 2018 compared to 790 in 2025.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.