Lydia Middleton Information/About

Our team is dedicated to individualized student care and all-around student success and family support.

Our team has a collective set of skills that enable them to work together to provide:

- a healthy environment for social and emotional growth,
- leadership exploration and development,
- individual and group discussion opportunities, and
- conflict resolution guidance, as opportunities arise.

If you would like to contact your student's counselor or any of our Student Services team, simply click here and complete the form to send an email.

Girls on the Run

As part of the Girls on the Run with King’s Daughters’ Health, this program is specifically geared for girls in Grades 3 - 5. This is an afterschool program focusing on creating strong, healthy young women by helping to educate them on positive emotional, mental, and physical life aspects and celebrating everything that makes them unique.

Math Bowl

The Math Bowl team is an activity for students in Grades 4 and 5. Our team is coached by building teachers and focuses on mastering grade appropriate math and problem solving skills. Students are encouraged to work a wide variety of problems in preparation for local and regional competitions.

As with Spell Bowl, the Math Bowl teams are a great introduction to the competitive academic team environment where students are pushed to study independently, outside of class time to achieve excellence in mathematics.

Robotics Team

Do you love building things, figure out how things work, and problem solve?

Then you may be interested in being part of our Robotics Team! Available to students in Grades 3 through 5, participating students meet once a week throughout the school year to plan, design, and build a team robot. The team will also travel occasionally during the school year to compete against other elementary robotics teams.

Congratulations to the 2016 - 2017 Robotics Club on their first competition and 4th place in regional competition on January 21, 2017.

Running Club

Our running club is available to students of all ages who are interested in training for The Annual Molly Dattilo 5k Run Walk and Elementary Races. Held each year in May, local volunteer coaches, parents, and teachers help train students to compete in either a mile dash or the 5K run. Our school is always well represented and this is a great way to get active with your friends for a great cause!

Science Bowl

We have an intermediate Science Bowl team for students in Grades 4 and 5. Students compete in the annual Science Bowl Competition sponsored by the Indiana Association of School Principals in partnership with Purdue University. The competition is done online in order to save travel expenses.

Sessions last for 90 minutes and consist of questions developed by consultants from the Indiana Science Standards. The sessions are broken into three sections consisting of an hands-on experiment, general team questions, and individual questions.

For more information - http://www.iasp.org/dsp/academic/science/

Spell Bowl

We have a Primary Spell Bowl team for students in Grades 2 and 3 and an Intermediate Spell Bowl team for students in Grades 4 and 5. Each team is coached by building teachers and focuses on mastering grade appropriate spelling lists consisting of hundreds of words. Students are given a practice list, try-out, and are selected for the team based on their accuracy.

If chosen for the team, students can count on lots of extra time after school (both on-site and homework type practice) to practice in preparation for local and regional competitions. Our Spell Bowl teams are very competitive and the students really enjoy the camaraderie the experience provides and is a great introduction to academic teams.

STARS After School

Independent of the school, STARS After School is a program hosted at Lydia Middleton under the direction of Missy Perry. Information on STARS is available in the main office, or feel free to contact Missy Perry at .

Student learning is at the heart of our eLearning program initiatives. Madison Consolidated Schools has been supporting systemic change initiatives that focus on student learning and growth, educator effectiveness, college and career readiness, and school improvement. Our corporation has made a significant investment in technology and we are beginning to see teachers and students create an ecosystem for information-age learning in their classrooms. We believe that utilizing technology, providing access and mobility to 21st-century resources, and allowing teachers to learn & grow in these opportunities will bring us closer to our goals and allow us to educate all students to reach their potential.

Madison Consolidated Schools is committed to student growth and learning through innovative educational practices. Five key principles in our district strategic plan include:

1. Student Performance
2. Community Involvement
3. Human Capital
4. Environment
5. Local/Global Marketplace

For technology assistance please email:

2018 - 2019 Madison Consolidated Schools
Student Device Repair and Fees
Insurance is highly recommended and offered at the beginning of each school year from Repair Watch. If insurance is not purchased repair expenses are listed below for both the Chromebook and iPad Air 2 devices. If necessary, repair expenses are the responsibility of the student/family and will be charged at our cost.

Each student is asked to sign a detailed Technology Agreement which outlines care and use when devices are distributed

Dell Chromebook 3120 & 3180
Chromebook Replacement $238.00
Charger $17.00
Screen $30.00
Motherboard $107.00
Power Jack $8.00
Hingeset $12.00
Daughter Board $18.00
Wifi Card $10.00
Touchpad $22.00
Keyboard =$45.00
Bottom Cover $16.00
LCD Bezel $20.00
LCD Back Cover (Top Cover) $25.00
Battery $39.00
LCD Cable $11.00

iPad Air and iPad Air 2 Device (new)
iPad Air Lightening to USB cable $10.00
iPad Air Apple USB Power Adapter $10.00
iPad Air Glass/Digitizer Repair $79.00
iPad Air LCD Repair $99.00
iPad Air Glass/Digitizer and LCD Repair $129.00
iPad Air Battery Repair $59.00
iPad Air Charging Port Removal Repair $59.00
iPad Air Charging Port Repair $59.00

iPad Air Dent Removal Service $59.00
iPad Air Front Facing Camera Repair $59.00
iPad Air Headphone Jack Removal Repair $59.00
iPad Air Headphone Jack Repair $59.00
iPad Air Home Button Repair $59.00
iPad Air Microphone Repair $59.00
iPad Air Power/Lock Button Repair $59.00
iPad Air Rear Facing Camera Repair $59.00
iPad Air Reseat Cables/Buttons $59.00
iPad Air Software Restore $59.00
iPad Air Speaker Repair $59.00
iPad Air Volume Button Repair $59.00
iPad Air WiFi Antenna Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Retina Glass/Digitizer and LCD Repair $179.00
iPad Air2 Lightening to USB cable $10.00
iPad Air2 Apple USB Power Adapter $10.00
iPad Air 2 Battery Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Charging Port Removal Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Charging Port Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Dent Removal Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Front Facing Camera Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Headphone Jack Removal Service $59.00
iPad Air 2 Headphone Jack Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Home Button Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Microphone Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Power/Lock Button Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Rear Facing Camera Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Reseat Cables/Buttons $59.00
iPad Air 2 Software Restore $59.00
iPad Air 2 Speaker Repair $59.00
iPad Air 2 Volume Button Repair $59.00

This is the story of our history and the children’s efforts to uncover it….the story of Miss Lydia………..

With the name Lydia Middleton Elementary School and pictures of a kind looking gray-haired lady hanging by the secretary’s office, the students wanted to know more about Miss Lydia.

Many made promising attempts to explain who the school was named after and why. Jacob, in third grade, explained, “I think this school is named after a woman named Lydia Middleton. She found our school.”

Classmate Madalyn added, “ Our school is probably named Lydia Middleton because a lady used to work here and her name was Lydia. She is gone now but she was either the principal or the secretary. I do know that she worked here because if she didn’t we wouldn’t have a picture downstairs by the office. I think she was the secretary because her picture is by the secretary’s office.”

Second grader, Tre, reasoned, “I think she used to run this school and gave it for a present to Mr. Henderson (principal).”

Kindergarten children were sure she was the “owner” or had “built” the school. But first-grade student, Megan, said it simply, “She retired because the building was getting old.”

The truth of the matter is Miss Lydia never taught or served as principal at Lydia Middleton Elementary. She was, however, assigned to teach at the Old Lower Seminary which stood in the same location until razed to make room for a new structure in 1923.

Miss Lydia was born in 1857 and reared in Madison, Indiana. After graduating from Madison High School, she received her teacher’s license at the age of eighteen. She commuted daily on the Pennsylvania Railroad to Pleasant Point, a one-room school in Jefferson County. For five years she taught in the schools of the county. Her next assignment was in the old Lower Seminary in Madison. She taught there for thirty-five years, serving twenty-one of those years as principal. She retired in 1917 and the Lower Seminary was razed. In 1923, when the new structure was completed, it was dedicated in her honor as the Lydia Middleton Elementary School.

Miss Lydia spent her summers attending institutes and Chautauquas, seeking to improve her moral and scholastic abilities. She was a member of Trinity Methodist Church in Madison. Several of her brothers served in the Civil War and her family proudly told of their ancestor, Mr. Author Middleton, who signed the Declaration of Independence.

At the age of 82, Lydia Middleton died and was buried in Fairmount Cemetery. She was a true pioneer teacher in Indiana. The students of the new millennium are proud to know her story!