James Wright Middle

Located at 1717 Fish Hatchery Rd, in Madison, Wisconsin, James Wright Middle is a small junior high that caters to 245 students (grades 6 through 8), overseen by Madison Metropolitan School District. Enrollment runs roughly 36% leaner than the state mean of about 381.

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

On demographics, James Wright Middle shows that the largest single group is Hispanic at 49%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 29% Black, 12% White, 5% multiracial, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 8% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting James Wright Middle tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 68% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is higher than Dane County's rate of about 32%.

After controlling for student poverty, James Wright Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 32.1%, a residual of -3.7 points.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,975, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Across Dane County's 169 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students), James Wright Middle is one campus in the mix.

Lincoln Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around James Wright Middle. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), James Wright Middle ranks 5th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 40.9%.

James Wright Middle operates from a high-density location.

Five-year trend. James Wright Middle's enrollment has showed little movement since 2018, when it stood at 250 (now 245).

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