Mendota Elementary

Mendota Elementary is a K-5 school of moderately sized scale in Madison, Wisconsin, overseen by Madison Metropolitan School District, enrolling 282 students in grades pre-K through 5.

Mendota Elementary is one of 53 schools operated by Madison Metropolitan School District, a district that educates 25,155 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Mendota Elementary reports that the most-represented group is Black (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 16% White, 16% multiracial, 14% Hispanic, 4% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 5% Black, putting the school's mix visibly more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.7:1 average. Roughly 73% of students at Mendota Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Dane County runs at roughly 32%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, Mendota Elementary tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 36.8%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Dane County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,975 per year, about 55% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 5%. Mendota Elementary is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

The closest other public school is Lindbergh Elementary, roughly 0.5 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Mendota Elementary ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 32.2%.

Mendota Elementary operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Mendota Elementary's enrollment has edged down 11% since 2018, when it stood at 317 (now 282). Over the same period, the White share decreased from 26% to 16%.

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