Summary:
Zip code 62060 includes three Bernard Long Elementary School (pre-K–grade 5), Madison Junior High School (grades 6–8), and Madison Senior High School (grades 9–12), serving different stages of students’ education in the same area. The clearest overall concern is that all the latest reported test results are below state results: for example, elementary students were 37 points below the state in all-grades ELA, and the junior high was 27 points below.
The junior high had the highest reported all-grades ELA result, at 30% proficient, compared with 20% at the elementary school—but these figures cover different grade bands, so they do not establish which school performs better. The elementary school had the largest reported all-grades ELA gap to the state (37 points), compared with 27 points at the junior high; its math gap was 30 points. At the high school, ninth-grade science was 15 points below the state, a smaller gap than ninth-grade ELA (24 points) or tenth-grade ELA (29 points). No school can be named the top or bottom performer overall from these unlike results.
Trends are mixed: the elementary school’s all-grades ELA gap to the state narrowed by 4 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, and the high school’s grade 10 ELA gap narrowed by 8 points. In contrast, the junior high’s all-grades ELA gap widened by 4 points, while the high school’s grade 9 ELA and science gaps widened by 6 points each. SchoolDigger rankings also moved in different directions: the elementary school fell from the 7th to the 2nd percentile, while the junior high rose from the 5th to the 13th and the high school from the 9th to the 15th. In 2024–2025, student-teacher ratios were 11.2, 12.4, and 8.4, respectively. That year, the elementary and high schools were labeled “all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility),” while 98% of junior high students were reported as free/reduced lunch eligible; these are different measures, not a basis for ranking schools. Grade bands and some suppressed results limit direct comparisons.
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