Summary:
Madison, Illinois, has one listed high school, Madison Senior High School, serving grades 9–12 with 152 students. In 2025–2026, the school’s graduation rate was 83%, below the Illinois rate of 90%, while its dropout rate was 6%, compared with 2% statewide. The most pressing concern among these indicators is chronic absenteeism: 45% of students were chronically absent, compared with 24% statewide, a 21-point difference.
Madison Senior is both the top- and bottom-ranked school in this local list simply because it is the only one; there is no meaningful local school-to-school comparison. Its reported test results were below state results in every listed subject and grade. In 2024–2025, grade 9 science was closest to the state rate, at 42% versus 50%—9 points lower—while grade 10 English language arts (ELA) was furthest behind, at 19% versus 55%, a 37-point gap. In 2025–2026, grade 9 science was 33% versus 47%, and grade 10 ELA was 25% versus 54%. With only one school and some results unavailable, the local list cannot establish a peer-school leader.
Results changed in different directions across the three grade-and-subject combinations reported in both years: grade 10 ELA rose 6 points, from 19% to 25%, and its gap with the state narrowed by 8 points; grade 9 ELA fell 7 points, and grade 9 science fell 9 points, widening their state gaps by 6 points each. SchoolDigger’s statewide ranking moved from the 9th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 16th in 2024–2025, then dipped to the 15th in 2025–2026; the latest rating was one star. For context, the school’s 2024–2025 student–teacher ratio was 8.4, and its low-income measure was Community Eligibility (CEP), meaning all students receive free meals through the program.
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