For most of the 2000s, Middleton High School sent a large number of its graduates off to UW-Madison, but some other Wisconsin schools always produced more new freshmen on Bascom Hill.

That changed starting in 2009, and Middleton now easily outpaces others as the biggest source of first-year UW-Madison students.

This fall, 94 Middleton graduates started as full-time UW-Madison students, 22 more than the next-closest high school, Hartland Arrowhead.

In 2013, Middleton sent 99 students to the Madison campus, 20 better than Madison Memorial.

Between 1999 and 2008, there were an average of 51 new freshmen at UW-Madison who graduated from Middleton. From 2009 to 2014, that average was 78.

The figures are from an analysis of UW-Madison Registrar's enrollment reports since 1999, counting only those who enrolled in school and not all that were approved for admission.

They don't, however, indicate a clear reason why more of Middleton's graduating classes have recently enrolled at UW.