Adopt-a-School: Connecting Community to Classrooms
Our partners create opportunities for schools throughout the district.
About Adopt-a-School
Adopting a school. It’s easy and rewarding.
How it works is simple: We match businesses and community organizations with schools to ensure mutually rewarding partnerships.
What Schools Get
Mentors, materials and motivation for students.
When you adopt a school, you provide new experiences and opportunities for kids. You can serve as a tutor or lunch buddy, guest speak on a topic, provide job shadowing and so much more.
What Partners Get
Engage your employees. Build a better community.
As an Adopt-a-School partner, you will actively engage with and invest in the community where you live and work. You will share your time, attention, talents and experiences with students, staff and teachers, contributing to vibrant school communities.
“Our partnership with Franklin Elementary School goes way beyond volunteering. M3 employees have become emotionally invested in the wellbeing and success of Franklin’s students, teachers and administrators.”
Mike Victorson, President & CEO, M3 Insurance
Success Stories
Partnerships In Action
La Follette High School
Opportunities take center stage.
Forward Theater Company’s Adopt-a-School partnership with La Follette High School is focused on supporting performing arts students. Forward offers workshops for students on auditioning, provides professional mentors in stage management, lighting, and marketing, and has provided professional directors for several productions.
Memorial High School
Personalized Pathways: Giving students real-world experience.
Unity Point Health-Meriter makes it easy for students at Memorial High School to put what they learn in the classroom into action, giving them opportunities to job shadow and learn from healthcare professionals.
Lake View Elementary, Sherman Middle, and East High Schools
Mock interviews mean business.
American Family Insurance, one of the largest employers in Dane County, has been an Adopt-a-School partner since 2014. At Sherman, they continue to give students one-of-a-kind developmental experiences.
Adopt Us: Our Schools Currently Seeking Partners
Allis Elementary
Black Hawk Middle
Chávez Elementary
Crestwood Elementary
Elvehjem Elementary
Emerson Elementary
Gompers Elementary
Henderson Elementary
Huegel Elementary
La Follette High
Lowell Elementary
Mendota Elementary
Muir Elementary
Nuestro Mundo
O’Keeffe Middle
Olson Elementary
Orchard Ridge Elementary
Shabazz City High
Shorewood Hills Elementary
Spring Harbor Middle
Stephens Elementary
Toki Middle
Van Hise Elementary
West High
Whitehorse Middle
Who’s Helping Who: Current Adopt-a-School Partnerships
Allis Elementary
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
Anana Elementary
Attic Angel Association, CUNA Mutual Group (Customer Operations Division), Blackhawk Church, St. Dunstan’s Episcopal Church, Exact Sciences, and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
Badger Rock Middle
CUNA Mutual Group, Doxa Church, Fields Auto, and Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin
Black Hawk Middle
Door Creek Church
Capital High
Blackhawk Church Downtown and Wisconsin Evaluation Collaborative
Cherokee Heights Middle
Thermo Fisher Scientific, and Westminster Presbyterian Church
Crestwood Elementary
Asbury United Methodist Church
East High
Alliant Energy, American Family Insurance, and Summit Credit Union
Emerson Elementary
Kiwanis Club of Downtown Madison
Franklin Elementary
M3 Insurance
Hamilton Middle
CUNA Mutual Group (Actuarial Group)
Hawthorne Elementary
DEMCO, and First United Methodist Church
Huegel Elementary
American Girl
Jefferson Middle
Madison West Middleton Rotary Club, and Madison Church
Kennedy Elementary
Messiah Lutheran Church, Crosspoint Church, and St. Paul A. M. E. Church
La Follette High
6AM Marketing, Forward Theater, and Summit Credit Union
Lake View Elementary
UW Health Northeast Family Medical Center and American Family Insurance
Lapham Elementary
Blackhawk Church Downtown, and State of Wisconsin Department of Health Services
Leopold Elementary
Blackhawk Church – Fitchburg, the Church at Christ Memorial, City on a Hill, Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, and the State of Wisconsin Department of Revenue
Lincoln Elementary
St. Mary’s Hospital, State of Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds, and Doxa Church
Lindbergh Elementary
Catholic Charities, and TASC
Lowell Elementary
Capitol City Lodge #2, and Trinity Lutheran Church
Marquette Elementary
State of Wisconsin Department of Administration Affirmative Action Advisory Committee
Memorial High
UnityPoint Health-Meriter, Capital City Theatre, Summit Credit Union, and Yahara Software
Mendota Elementary
Christ Presbyterian Church, Door Creek Church, and Seva Circle
Midvale Elementary
Kiwanis Club of West Madison and WIDA World Class Instructional Design and Assessment
Muir Elementary
CUNA Mutual Group, and J.H. Findorff & Son Inc.
O’Keeffe Middle
UW-Madison “Introduction to Education” Team
Orchard Ridge Elementary
Good Shepherd Lutheran Church
Randall Elementary
Wisconsin Athletics
Sandburg Elementary
Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, Door Creek Church, and Wisconsin Association of School Administrators
Sennett Middle
IFF, and LocknCharge
Schenk Elementary
Seeds of Peace
Sherman Middle
American Family Insurance
Spring Harbor Middle
Wisconsin Technical College System
Stephens Elementary
Covenant Presbyterian Church, and Wellspring United Methodist Church
Thoreau Elementary
American Printing Company, Group Health Cooperative of South Central Wisconsin, and Westminster Presbyterian Church
West High
Geneva Campus Church, and Summit Credit Union
Whitehorse Middle
Downtown Optimists, and WEA Member Benefits
Wright Middle
Strand Associates, Inc., and Mt. Zion Baptist Church
Other: Transition Education Program (TEP)
Alpha Delta Kappa Sorority