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High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12

Vel Phillips Memorial High School, Madison, WI

Vel Phillips Memorial High School is a public high school in Madison, part of Madison Metropolitan School District. It enrolled 2,004 students in 2024-25, with 15.8 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
2,004
Teachers (FTE)
127.0
Students per teacher
15.8
Grades
9 to 12

This school's ratio is 4.2 higher than the district figure of 11.6. The Wisconsin average across schools is 14.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school15.8
District11.6
Wisconsin14.0
United States15.3

School details

Address
201 S Gammon Rd, Madison, WI 53717
Phone
(608)663-5990
District
Madison Metropolitan School District
County
Dane County
Level
High
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Locale
City: Large
NCES school ID
550852000937
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
762
Reduced-price lunch
88
Free or reduced-price lunch
85042.4% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other high schools in Madison Metropolitan School District

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.