Vel Phillips Memorial High
Madison, WI · High School · Grades 9-12
Vel Phillips Memorial High is a high school in Madison, WI with 2,025 students enrolled and a 49% proficiency rate. Part of Madison Metropolitan School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Vel Phillips Memorial High is a high school located in Madison, Wisconsin. The school serves 2,025 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 49% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 87% graduation rate.
39% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
Vel Phillips Memorial High is part of the Madison Metropolitan School District in Wisconsin.
How This School Compares
Vel Phillips Memorial High has 2,025 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Madison Metropolitan School District (476 students). Its 49% proficiency rate is 1 percentage points below the district average of 50%. Compared to the Wisconsin state average of 53%, the school performs 4 points lower.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Vel Phillips Memorial High has 2,025 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 16.5:1.
According to EDFacts data, 49% of students at Vel Phillips Memorial High meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Vel Phillips Memorial High has a 87% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Vel Phillips Memorial High is part of the Madison Metropolitan School District in Madison, Wisconsin. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
this entity is one of the data points covered by this site’s U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment dataset. The detail above comes directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the context that follows situates the headline numbers against the broader distribution across U.S. public schools and districts.
Every number on this page links back to NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.