Neighborhood School Students Score High

In the 2000 Wisconsin Reading Comprehension Test, 63 students from the three third grades at Marquette Elementary School scored higher than their peers from the 26 elementary schools in the Madison Metropolitan School District. Marquette had the fourth highest percentage of students taking the test (92.3%) with no students testing at the lowest or minimal level of the four tier ranking system. The test reported that 52.4% of the Marquette students taking the test are reading at the advanced level. These results illustrate the successes of the well trained staffs at Lapham and Marquette Elementary Schools and the students that go there.