Madison-Virgil

The Madison-Virgil area has two schools serving PK–12: Madison Elementary (PK–6, 130 students) and Madison High (grades 7–12, 106 students). In 2025–26, both schools’ science results were above the state rate: the two-school average was 51% versus 38% statewide. The advantage was smaller in ELA (49% versus 46%) and math (43% versus 41%). The clearest shared strength is science, but performance varies by subject and grade.

Neither school leads in every subject: Madison High had the stronger all-grades ELA result, at 52% compared with Madison Elementary’s 45%, a 7-point gap. The elementary school led in math, 49% to 37% (12 points), and science, 54% to 48% (5 points). Grade-level results show why averages can hide important contrasts: elementary sixth-grade ELA was 27%, 15 points below the state comparison, while fifth-grade math was 62%, 16 points above. At the high school, eleventh-grade science was 58%, 28 points above the state result; seventh-grade math was 26%, 11 points below.

Recent changes especially flag high-school math for attention: from 2024–25 to 2025–26, Madison High fell 8 points in math, from 45% to 37%, even as the state rate rose 2 points. Its ELA improved 5 points and science 2; Madison Elementary’s ELA fell 4 points, math rose 2 and science was essentially unchanged. SchoolDigger’s latest rankings favor the high school: 56th of 340 schools, in the 84th percentile with four stars, versus the elementary school’s 295th of 657, 55th percentile and three stars. Student–teacher ratios were 8.1 at the high school and 10.6 at the elementary school; reported free/reduced-lunch rates were 58% and 50%, respectively. These are useful context, but do not point to one school leading across all subjects.