Enrollment
257
Elementary
DISTRICT 281 · STATE 323
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WAUWATOSA SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 551599002085
Madison Elementary
9925 W Glendale Ave, Wauwatosa, WI 53225 · (414) 773-1400 · Milwaukee County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL257 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 29% of Wisconsin public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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
11.3:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.9:1 · STATE 14.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
81 students
DISTRICT 23% · STATE 42%
Community
0
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 | 27 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 28 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 36 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 47 | 18% |
| Grade 3 | 35 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 45 | 18% |
| Grade 5 | 39 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (28) is 28% smaller than its 5th grade class (39).
Student demographics
74%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 61% · 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
55.7%
WI avg 53.1% . -5.5pp since 2023
Math
48.7%
WI avg 54.8% . -4.2pp since 2023
What this means: On the Forward Exam, Wisconsin's statewide test, about 56 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 49 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 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 4 points.
Forward Exam results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.7% | 48.7% |
| 2023-24 | 61.2% | 52.9% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
54.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
58.3%
based on WI schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-4.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 54% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 58% typical for Wisconsin schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Wisconsin's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Madison Elementary
Madison Elementary's state test result (54.0% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Madison Elementary this school | 257 | 31.5% | 54.0% |
| C H Bird Elementary Sun Prairie | 333 | 44.1% | 31.6% |
| Underwood Elementary Wauwatosa | 315 | 41.6% | 44.5% |
| Eisenhower Elementary Wauwatosa | 373 | 34.3% | 56.1% |
| Sun Prairie Four Kids Sun Prairie | 297 | 35.7% | N/A |
| Horizon Elementary Sun Prairie | 345 | 25.5% | 68.5% |
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 Madison Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Wisconsin | In Milwaukee County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 54.0% | #549 of 982 | #42 of 171 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 48.7% | #615 of 992 ▼ 30 | #45 of 174 ▼ 6 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.7% | #426 of 992 ▼ 91 | #43 of 174 ▼ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 257 | #756 of 1,157 | #133 of 180 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.3:1 | #167 of 901 | #8 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 74.0% | #24 of 901 | #4 of 158 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.5% | #715 of 1,064 | #145 of 174 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -14.0% | #349 of 664 | #73 of 133 |
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
257
-21 (-8%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 420
Student : Teacher
11.3:1
was 13.9:1
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 | 257 | 22.7 | 11.3:1 | 32% (81) |
| 2023-24 | 254 | 24.1 | 10.5:1 | 38% (97) |
| 2022-23 | 288 | 23.3 | 12.3:1 | 31% (88) |
| 2020-21 | 278 | 20 | 13.9:1 | 33% (93) |
| 2017-18 | 299 | 19.7 | 15.2:1 | 32% (95) |
| 2015-16 | 322 | 20 | 16.1:1 | 35% (113) |
| 2010-11 | 363 | 21 | 17.3:1 | 21% (75) |
| 2000-01 | 346 | 22 | 15.7:1 | 8% (27) |
| 1990-91 | 420 | 30 | 14.0:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Madison Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 14% (299 to 257); teachers up 15% (19.7 to 22.7).
About Madison Elementary
Madison Elementary is a small elementary school in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, administered by Wauwatosa School District. Students in pre-K through 5 make up the school's enrollment of 257 students. Elementary schools in Wisconsin have about 323 students on average; enrollment here is 20% lower.
Madison Elementary is among 17 schools run by Wauwatosa School District, which serves 6,704 students.
White students account for 35% of enrollment at Madison Elementary, more than any other group. Other groups include 31% Black, 12% Asian, 12% multiracial, and 9% Hispanic. By comparison, Milwaukee County residents are about 51% White. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, Madison Elementary scores 74%.
On staff are 22.7 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 11.3:1. The average for elementary schools in Wisconsin is 14.7:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. About 32% of students at Madison Elementary are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. On average, public schools in Milwaukee County report 64%.
Among Wisconsin public elementary schools, Madison Elementary outscored 29%, which works out to a C on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Madison Elementary is -4.3 points: 54.0% actual, 58.3% predicted.
In Milwaukee County, the median household earns about $64,435 a year, about 35% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. Across Milwaukee County, 284 public schools serve about 122,496 students.
Emerson Elementary, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Madison Elementary is 2nd of 9 nearby schools by average proficiency rate.
Locale data from NCES put Madison Elementary in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more (Suburb: Large).
Over 4 years, enrollment decreased by 21 students, from 278 to 257. There were fewer students per teacher in 2024-25 (11.3:1) than in 2020-21 (13.9:1).
This page is set up for the Madison Elementary community to discuss special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
Milwaukee County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
926,331
Census ACS
Median income
$64,435
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
35%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
284
122,496 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Wauwatosa School District
- East HighHigh · 1,043 students
- West HighHigh · 986 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 782 students
- Whitman MiddleMiddle · 570 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 396 students
- McKinley ElementaryElementary · 388 students
Other schools in Wauwatosa
- East HighHigh · 1,043 students
- West HighHigh · 986 students
- Longfellow MiddleMiddle · 782 students
- Whitman MiddleMiddle · 570 students
- Roosevelt ElementaryElementary · 396 students
- McKinley ElementaryElementary · 388 students
Other Madison Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 27 states are named Madison Elementary. Madison Elementary is the 46th largest of the 60.
- Madison ElementaryStevens Point, WI · 360 students
- Madison ElementaryJanesville, WI · 307 students
- Madison ElementaryMarshfield, WI · 295 students
- Madison ElementaryManitowoc, WI · 202 students
- Madison ElementaryNorth Highlands, CA · 754 students
Nearby schools
- Emerson Elementary0.6 mi · 187
- Engleburg Elementary0.9 mi · 286
- HAPA-Hmong American Peace Academy K3-120.9 mi · 1,974
- Parkview Elementary1.0 mi · 335
- Ninety-Fifth Street Elementary1.1 mi · 428
- Grantosa Drive Elementary1.2 mi · 506
Frequently asked questions
About Madison ElementaryHow many students attend Madison Elementary?
Madison Elementary enrolls approximately 257 students in grades PK-05.
Is Madison Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Madison Elementary is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does Madison Elementary have?
Madison Elementary employs 23 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.3:1.
What is the student diversity at Madison Elementary?
Student demographics at Madison Elementary are roughly 35% White, 9% Hispanic, 31% Black, 12% Asian, 12% Two or more.
Who oversees Madison Elementary?
Madison Elementary is overseen by Wauwatosa School District in Milwaukee County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.