NCES CCD 2024-25 6 schools OH

Best-Resourced Schools in Madison, OH

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6 public K-12 schools in Madison from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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6
Schools
2,659
Students
30/100
Avg Resource Index
20.2:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Compact, single-district system

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Madison has more public-school enrollment than 23% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Madison's 6 listed schools all sit inside one district, creating a compact governance structure with one budget, board, and reporting chain. That makes citywide comparisons cleaner than in places split across several districts, but it does not make the campuses interchangeable: elementary, middle, and high-school staffing needs differ. The ranked list is best read as variation inside one system rather than competition among separate local authorities.

A full K–12 ladder sits inside the city boundary

Madison's list includes 2 elementary, 1 middle, and 1 high-school campus, plus 2 combined-grade records. The city average spans every major grade stage, so the ranked table is more informative when read within level than as one interchangeable queue.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Madison lists only 6 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 29 to 818 students, a 28-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 77%
School count
Top 79%
Resource Index average
12th percentile
Teacher staffing
15th percentile

Madison High School accounts for 30.8% of all Madison public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Madison-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Madison school enrollment varies 28× across entities

Madison school enrollment ranges from 29 students (lowest) to 818 students (highest), a spread of 789 students. That spread is wider than typical and predicts noticeable gaps in service quality between the highest and lowest areas. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Madison operates one school district — a single-district system

Madison's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Madison student-teacher ratio is 20.2:1 — high (typically associated with larger urban scale or staffing constraints that have widened the headcount gap)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. South Elementary School 37
2. North Elementary School 36
3. Madison High School 30
4. Madison Pre-K 28
5. Madison Online Learning Academy 26
6. Madison Middle School 23

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Madison

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Madison Pre-K 37.9/100
  2. 2 Madison Middle School 28.5/100
  3. 3 North Elementary School 28.4/100
  4. 4 Madison High School 25.6/100
  5. 5 South Elementary School 24.9/100

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Which Madison school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

South Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Madison schools in this federal-data comparison at 37/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Madison, OH? ▼

Madison has 6 public schools with a total enrollment of 2,659 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 20.2:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.