Summary:
ZIP code 53705 is home to 8 schools serving roughly 3,069 students in the Madison Metropolitan School District — 5 elementary schools, 2 middle schools, and 1 high school — and it packs an unusually wide range of performance into a single neighborhood, from the #6 elementary school in Wisconsin to a high school ranked #524 of 533.
At the top of the range, Shorewood Hills Elementary ranks #6 of 1,039 elementary schools (99th percentile, 5 stars) and posts 5th grade ELA and Math proficiency of 96.3%. Van Hise Elementary (#79, 92nd percentile, 5 stars) has the lowest free/reduced lunch rate in the ZIP at 16.67%. Among middle schools, Hamilton Middle (#21 of 643, 97th percentile, 5 stars) leads with an average proficiency of 80.6% despite the ZIP's largest enrollment (790), highest student-teacher ratio (14.4), and a lower $16,988 per-student spend. Spring Harbor Middle (#71, 89th percentile, 4 stars) and Crestwood Elementary (#231, 78th percentile, 4 stars) have both improved their percentiles in recent years.
At the other end, Stephens Elementary (39th percentile, 2 stars) and Muir Elementary (35th percentile, 2 stars) report mostly below-average proficiency; Muir has the highest elementary free/reduced lunch rate (50.93%) and chronic absenteeism matching the district's 29.6%. Capital High is the starkest outlier: #524 of 533, 0 stars, 81.3% chronic absenteeism, 3.6% dropout, and 0% ACT Math proficiency, even with the highest spending ($25,317) and smallest classes (8.6 ratio). Notably, spending and class size don't track achievement here — Van Hise spends the least ($16,268) with strong results, while Capital High spends the most with the weakest outcomes. Across the ZIP, most schools keep absenteeism below the district rate, and free/reduced lunch correlates loosely with results, but not deterministically.
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