Spring Harbor Middle

Spring Harbor Middle, a compact intermediate school in Madison, Wisconsin, operated by Madison Metropolitan School District, enrolls 269 students, covering grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 29% smaller than the state mean of about 381.

Spring Harbor Middle is one of 53 schools operated by Madison Metropolitan School District, a district that serves 25,155 students overall.

In terms of who attends, Spring Harbor Middle lists that 58% of the student body identifies as White. The remainder comes out to 12% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 11% multiracial, 6% Black. The wider county runs roughly 77% White, putting the school's mix noticeably less White than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 12.1:1. The state averages about 12.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 28% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Spring Harbor Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 60.8%, the actual is 68.0%, a residual of +7.2 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Dane County indicate median household earnings sit near $89,975, 55% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Spring Harbor Middle is one of 169 public schools in Dane County (combined enrollment of about 78,525 students).

The closest other public school is Crestwood Elementary, roughly 0.6 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Spring Harbor Middle. On composite proficiency, Spring Harbor Middle comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.7%.

Spring Harbor Middle operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Spring Harbor Middle has changed only slightly, going from 265 students in 2018 to 269 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 48% to 58% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.1:1 in 2018 to 12.1:1 today.

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