Madison Local

Madison Local serves roughly 2,576 students across five schools in Mansfield, Ohio — three elementary schools, one middle school, and one high school — and ranks at the 47th percentile among Ohio districts with 2 stars, but that district-wide figure hides enormous variation between its schools. School-level rank percentiles range from the 24th at Madison South Elementary to the 89th at Eastview Elementary.

Eastview Elementary School is the district's strongest performer: 4 stars, 89th percentile, and a steadily improving three-year trend (66th → 79th → 89th). Its 2025–26 results are high across the board, including 3rd grade math at 91.4% and 3rd grade ELA at 88.6%, both well above state, with chronic absenteeism of 13.2%, below the district's 20.4%. Mifflin Elementary School is also strong — 3 stars and the 56th percentile — and has the district's lowest absenteeism (9.5%) and lowest student–teacher ratio (13.4), though it slipped from 4 stars and the 83rd percentile the year before. Madison Middle School is the most stable, holding near the 51st–52nd percentile for three years while posting exceptional Algebra I proficiency of 100% in 2025–26, far above district and state.

The two pressing improvement targets are Madison High School and Madison South Elementary School. Madison High earns 2 stars at the 34th percentile, down from the 49th two years earlier; it graduates 98.2% of students but trails the state in Biology (54.2% vs 67%) and Geometry (32% vs 43.3%), and has the district's highest absenteeism at 26.4%. Madison South has 1 star and sits at the 24th percentile, with 2025–26 scores below state in all four tested areas while carrying the highest FRL rate and the lowest per-student spending. Notably, chronic absenteeism is far lower in the elementary grades (9.5%–13.2%) than at the middle and high schools, a clear level-wide pattern worth watching.