Best Middle Schools in Madison, IL

Madison, Illinois, has one listed middle school, Madison Junior High School, serving grades 6–8 in Madison CUSD 12, with 124 students enrolled. The school’s reported results are below Illinois averages in every available subject-year comparison: in 2024–2025, it was 7% in mathematics versus 39% statewide, a 32-point gap, and 17% in grade 8 science versus 45%, a 29-point gap. In 2025–2026, all-grade English language arts (ELA) was 30% versus 56% statewide, a 27-point gap. These state gaps are the clearest finding about the area’s middle-school results.

Madison Junior High School is both the highest- and lowest-scoring school in this list because it is the only one; there is no school-to-school comparison. Its 2024–2025 all-grade ELA result was 30%, 23 points below the state’s 53%. In the latest grade-specific ELA results, grade 8 was stronger than grade 7: 46% versus 31%, with gaps to the state of 18 points and 26 points, respectively. This suggests the school’s reported ELA results vary by grade, though grade 6 results are suppressed.

All-grade ELA changed little over time while the state result rose: the school moved from 30.2% in 2024–2025 to 29.6% in 2025–2026, while the state increased from 53.1% to 56.3%; the school’s gap widened by 4 points. SchoolDigger ranked the school at the 5th percentile with 0 stars in 2022–2023, then at the 13th percentile with 1 star in each of the next three years. As context, 98% of students were eligible for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024–2025, and the student-teacher ratio was 12.4. Chronic absenteeism was 37% in 2025–2026, compared with 24% statewide and 38% in the district.