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If you had an hour of school board time for Leopold Elementary, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
626
Elementary
DISTRICT 375 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MADISON METROPOLITAN SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 550852000944
Leopold Elementary
2602 Post Rd, Madison, WI 53713 · (608) 204-4240 · Dane County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY11-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL626 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 6% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Wisconsin public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
62 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
56%
352 students
DISTRICT 48% · STATE 42%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 46 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 95 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 96 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 99 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 87 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 104 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is about the same size as its 5th grade class (104).
Student demographics
68%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 54% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
Forward Exam 2024-25 . % Meeting or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
25.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -4.5pp since 2023
Math
19.9%
WI avg 54.8% . -5.9pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 20 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Wisconsin schools, those numbers are about 53 and 55. Reading and writing scores are down about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 6 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 25.7% | 19.9% |
| 2023-24 | 30.2% | 25.8% |
% Meeting or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Forward Exam. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of WI schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
27.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
43.1%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 43% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Leopold Elementary
Leopold Elementary's state test result (27.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Leopold Elementary this school | 626 | 56.2% | 27.4% |
| Burdick Elementary Milwaukee | 527 | 58.1% | 41.3% |
| Sandburg Elementary Madison | 410 | 57.3% | 25.3% |
| Gilmore Fine Arts School Racine | 737 | 55.4% | 38.5% |
| Dr Virginia Henderson Elementary School Madison | 462 | 58.7% | 34.8% |
| Schenk Elementary Madison | 394 | 58.1% | 30.3% |
Matched among Wisconsin elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Leopold Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Dane County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.4% | #858 of 982 | #70 of 74 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 19.9% | #889 of 992 ▼ 23 | #71 of 74 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 25.7% | #865 of 992 ▼ 29 | #70 of 74 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 626 | #47 of 1,157 | #3 of 93 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.1:1 | #58 of 901 | #11 of 83 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 67.6% | #122 of 901 | #22 of 83 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.2% | #321 of 1,064 | #12 of 91 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.9% | #351 of 664 | #35 of 61 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
626
-20 (-3%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 617
Student : Teacher
10.1:1
was 10.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 626 | 61.9 | 10.1:1 | 56% (352) |
| 2023-24 | 623 | 55.2 | 11.3:1 | 54% (337) |
| 2022-23 | 624 | 59 | 10.6:1 | 59% (368) |
| 2020-21 | 646 | 61 | 10.6:1 | 69% (448) |
| 2017-18 | 727 | 66.7 | 10.9:1 | 58% (424) |
| 2015-16 | 667 | 69 | 9.7:1 | 70% (469) |
| 2010-11 | 708 | 55 | 12.9:1 | 71% (501) |
| 2000-01 | 675 | 52 | 13.0:1 | 29% (199) |
| 1990-91 | 617 | 41 | 15.1:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Leopold Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (727 to 626); teachers down 7% (66.7 to 61.9).
About Leopold Elementary
A high-enrollment elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin, Leopold Elementary is part of Madison Metropolitan School District. The school offers pre-K through 5 and enrolls 626 students. The school is 94% bigger than the average for elementary schools in Wisconsin.
Leopold Elementary is one school in a 53-school district, Madison Metropolitan School District, which enrolls 25,155 students.
At Leopold Elementary, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 48%. Enrollment also includes 20% Black, 20% White, 8% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Among people living in Dane County, the Hispanic share is about 8%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 68%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 10.1:1. The school has 61.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have an average ratio of 14.7:1. The school reported 56% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in Dane County average 32%.
On the allk12 Grade, Leopold Elementary lands at D, ahead of 6% of Wisconsin public elementary schools.
Leopold Elementary trails its predicted average proficiency rate across its state test results by 15.8 points (27.4% versus 43.1%), a bottom-10% result in Wisconsin on BeatsExpectations.
American Community Survey estimates for Dane County show that the median household earns about $89,975 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 55%, and about 5% of people live in poverty. Dane County has 169 public schools with about 78,525 students, including Leopold Elementary.
Leopold Elementary is about 1.5 miles from Lincoln Elementary, its nearest public school. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Leopold Elementary at 8th of 9.
Leopold Elementary falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's enrollment fell 3% from 2020-21 to 2024-25.
This page is set up for the Leopold Elementary community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Dane County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
572,674
Census ACS
Median income
$89,975
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
55%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
5%
Below federal line
Schools in county
169
78,525 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Madison Metropolitan School District
- West HighHigh · 2,222 students
- Vel Phillips Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- East HighHigh · 1,643 students
- LaFollette HighHigh · 1,541 students
- Hamilton MiddleMiddle · 790 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other schools in Madison
- West HighHigh · 2,222 students
- Vel Phillips Memorial High SchoolHigh · 2,004 students
- East HighHigh · 1,643 students
- LaFollette HighHigh · 1,541 students
- Hamilton MiddleMiddle · 790 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryElementary · 631 students
Other Leopold Elementary schools
One other US public school is named Leopold Elementary. Leopold Elementary is the largest of the 2.
- LEOPOLD ELEM.LEOPOLD, MO · 99 students
Nearby schools
- Lincoln Elementary1.5 mi · 393
- Thoreau Elementary1.7 mi · 403
- Cherokee Heights Middle1.7 mi · 526
- James Wright Middle1.8 mi · 245
- Stoner Prairie Elementary2.1 mi · 407
- Savanna Oaks Middle2.3 mi · 360
Frequently asked questions
About Leopold ElementaryWhat is the total enrollment at Leopold Elementary?
Leopold Elementary enrolls approximately 626 students in grades PK-05.
Is Leopold Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Leopold Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Leopold Elementary?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Leopold Elementary is approximately 10.1:1 (62 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Leopold Elementary?
Leopold Elementary reports a student body of 20% White, 48% Hispanic, 20% Black, 3% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Leopold Elementary?
Leopold Elementary is overseen by Madison Metropolitan School District in Dane County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.