Summary:
Zip code 62060 has one listed high school, Madison Senior High School, serving grades 9–12, with 152 students and an 8.4-to-1 student–teacher ratio. With no other high school listed, families cannot compare it with local peer schools; the clearest concern in its reported outcomes is chronic absenteeism: in 2025–26, 45% of students were chronically absent, compared with 24% statewide, a 21-point gap.
Madison is both the only school in the area and the only possible local “standout”; its available results are below state comparisons. In 2024–25, its average proficiency across the three reported grades was 25% in English language arts, 6% in math and 27% in science—32, 31 and 22 points below the respective state averages. Science was comparatively strongest, but still trailed the state. Other outcomes also warrant attention: the 2025–26 graduation rate was 83%, 7 points below the state’s 90%, while the dropout rate was 6%, 4 points above the state’s 2%. Absenteeism was also 7 points higher than the 38% rate for Madison CUSD 12.
Recent results are mixed rather than consistently improving: grade 10 ELA proficiency rose 6 points from 2024–25 to 2025–26, narrowing its gap with the state by 8 points, while grade 9 ELA fell 7 points and grade 9 science fell 9 points; their state gaps widened by 6 points each. SchoolDigger ranks the school in the 9th percentile with 0 stars in 2023–24, the 16th percentile with 1 star in 2024–25, and the 15th percentile with 1 star in 2025–26—an overall 6-point percentile improvement, followed by a 1-point dip. For context, the school’s low-income measure is “all students receive free meals (Community Eligibility)” for 2024–25; this is not a percentage.
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