Middle Schools in Madison Local

Madison Local operates just one middle school — Madison Middle School (6079 Middle Ridge Rd, Madison, OH), serving grades 6–8 with 605 students, roughly 200 per grade level. Because it is the district's only middle school, its results are the district's middle-grade results. Madison Local earned the school 3 stars and a 58th-percentile rank in 2025-26 (435th of 1,046 schools in Ohio), holding steady in a narrow 56th–59th percentile band for three years.

For parents, the headline is that Madison Middle improved relative to the state: in 2025-26, six of eight tests scored above Ohio averages, up from four of eight the prior year. The strongest general-education results are 7th-grade English (73.2% proficient vs. 62.7% statewide) and 7th-grade math (55.3% vs. 48.6%) — both held double-digit and roughly seven-point advantages over two straight years. Eighth-grade science remains a strength at 64.7% vs. 61.2%. The school's stand-out figure is Algebra I: 96.6% passed in 2025-26 against 61.6% statewide, though this is an accelerated, self-selected group, so it does not describe the typical 8th grader. The clearest concern is 8th-grade English, below state both years (54.3% vs. 58.3% in 2025-26) with a widening gap. The best news is 8th-grade math, which jumped from 39.9% to 51.6% — from clearly below state to parity.

Context matters here. The school reports a 23.2:1 student-teacher ratio, a 48.6% free/reduced-lunch rate, and 18.2% chronic absenteeism versus the district's 20.1% — meaning about one in five students misses 10% or more of the year. Per-student spending is listed at $8,387, but that figure is from 2018-19 and is too old to pair with current results. Overall, this is a consistently slightly-above-average school with real strengths in 7th grade and advanced math, and a clear opportunity in 8th-grade English.