Lapham Elementary

Lapham Elementary is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as an elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin. It offers pre-K through 2 and has 182 students enrolled. It has 44% fewer students than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin (about 323).

Madison Metropolitan School District is the district for Lapham Elementary. It has 53 schools and 25,155 students.

About 58% of the student body at Lapham Elementary is White. Other groups include 18% Black, 13% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Dane County residents are about 77% White. A diversity index of 61% means there is a 61% chance two randomly chosen students at Lapham Elementary are from different groups.

Classroom staffing at Lapham Elementary totals 22.7 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 8.0:1. Compared with the 14.7:1 average for elementary schools in Wisconsin, this school's ratio is lower. Federal data show 44% of students (80) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Among public schools in Dane County, the average eligibility rate is 32%.

In Dane County, home to about 572,674 people, the median household earns about $89,975 a year, roughly 55% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 5%. Lapham Elementary shares Dane County with 168 other public schools.

Lapham Elementary's closest public school neighbor is Innovative High, less than a tenth of a mile away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is City: Large: inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.

A 12% decrease took enrollment from 207 in 2020-21 to 182 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio went down from 9.9:1 to 8.0:1.

The allk12 page for Lapham Elementary lets the school community talk about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. You can also rate the school on this page.