Schools · Madison
Madison, WI schools
82 public, charter and private schools in Madison. Search by name or narrow by level, type or district.
TownTapestry School GradeNew
C−
Madison’s School Grade: C-
The public schools Madison’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, trail 85% of Wisconsin’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the bottom.
C+Test scoresD-Graduation
Wisconsin school districts we grade (436)Better than 15%
Lower resultsHigher results
Wisconsin towns with similar household incomes (1,340)Better than 13%
High confidence. Built on 6,571 tested students and a graduating class of 1,946; ordinary year-to-year swings are unlikely to change the grade.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on Wisconsin’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of Wisconsin only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in Wisconsin with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
Test scores · 2020–21
State test results
Math (Madison Metropolitan)35%
State average 37.2%
Graduation · class of 2020
84% graduate on time
Graduation rate
84%
WI: 90.1%
Graduating class
1,946
students
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years. #291 of 301 WI towns →
Districts
The district serving Madison
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Every school
All 82 schools in Madison
Showing 1–30 of 82 schools
Cesar Chavez ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 631 students
B-PublicLeopold ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 626 students
DPublicKennedy ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 582 students
CPublicDr Virginia Henderson Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 462 students
B-PublicOlson ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 462 students
BPublicMilele Chikasa Anana Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 455 students
CPublicPope Farm ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–4 · 448 students
A+PublicStephens ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 447 students
B+PublicHuegel ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 417 students
BPublicElvehjem ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 415 students
BPublicSandburg ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 410 students
D-PublicThoreau ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 403 students
B-PublicVan Hise ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 396 students
A+PublicSchenk ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 394 students
C-PublicLincoln ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 393 students
CPublicMuir ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 377 students
BPublicMidvale ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–2 · 372 students
PublicHawthorne ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 360 students
C-PublicSouthside Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades PK–5 · 336 students
DPublicLowell ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 329 students
APublicRandall Elementary SchoolElementary · Grades 3–5 · 320 students
A+PublicFranklin ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–2 · 308 students
PublicEmerson ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 297 students
A-PublicCrestwood ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 293 students
A-PublicLake View ElementaryElementary · Grades K–5 · 292 students
DPublicMendota ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 282 students
DPublicOrchard Ridge ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 265 students
B-PublicGompers ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 217 students
CPublicLapham ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–2 · 182 students
PublicLindbergh ElementaryElementary · Grades PK–5 · 180 students
D-PublicSchool data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.