Madison Elementary

Located at 701 N 4th St, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin, Madison Elementary is a close-knit K-5 school that enrolls 202 students (grades K through 5), one of the schools within Manitowoc School District. That puts it 37% leaner than the typical public school in Wisconsin, which averages around 323 students.

Madison Elementary is one of 11 schools operated by Manitowoc School District, a district that educates 4,452 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Madison Elementary lists that the largest single group is White, at 59% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 21% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 5% Black. By comparison, Manitowoc County as a whole is about 88% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school employs 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 14.7:1, putting Madison Elementary tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 65% of students at Madison Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Manitowoc County runs at roughly 40%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Madison Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.9%, the actual is 41.0%, a residual of +3.2 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Manitowoc County indicate the typical household earns roughly $69,148 per year, about 23% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. Madison Elementary is one of 30 public schools in Manitowoc County (combined enrollment of about 10,090 students).

Wilson Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Madison Elementary comes 4th of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 39.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-based area.

Five-year trend. Madison Elementary's enrollment has contracted 14% since 2018, when it stood at 234 (now 202). Hispanic enrollment moved from 12% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

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