diff --git a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
index 7acb92620c..f09b27d01f 100644
--- a/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/activerecord/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+*   `rake db:migrate:status` works with legacy migration numbers like `00018_xyz.rb`.
+
+    Fixes #15538.
+
+    *Yves Senn*
+
 *   Baseclass becomes! subclass.
 
     Before this change, a record which changed its STI type, could not be
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb
index fca002873c..481e5c17e4 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/migration.rb
@@ -711,7 +711,7 @@ module ActiveRecord
       if ActiveRecord::Base.timestamped_migrations
         [Time.now.utc.strftime("%Y%m%d%H%M%S"), "%.14d" % number].max
       else
-        "%.3d" % number
+        SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number(number)
       end
     end
 
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
index fa25ceaefa..6dca206f2a 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/railties/databases.rake
@@ -86,14 +86,15 @@ db_namespace = namespace :db do
         abort 'Schema migrations table does not exist yet.'
       end
       db_list = ActiveRecord::Base.connection.select_values("SELECT version FROM #{ActiveRecord::Migrator.schema_migrations_table_name}")
-      db_list.map! { |version| "%.3d" % version }
+      db_list.map! { |version| ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number(version) }
       file_list = []
       ActiveRecord::Migrator.migrations_paths.each do |path|
         Dir.foreach(path) do |file|
           # match "20091231235959_some_name.rb" and "001_some_name.rb" pattern
           if match_data = /^(\d{3,})_(.+)\.rb$/.match(file)
-            status = db_list.delete(match_data[1]) ? 'up' : 'down'
-            file_list << [status, match_data[1], match_data[2].humanize]
+            version = ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number(match_data[1])
+            status = db_list.delete(version) ? 'up' : 'down'
+            file_list << [status, version, match_data[2].humanize]
           end
         end
       end
diff --git a/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_migration.rb b/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_migration.rb
index a9d164e366..5e484ded75 100644
--- a/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_migration.rb
+++ b/activerecord/lib/active_record/schema_migration.rb
@@ -36,6 +36,10 @@ module ActiveRecord
           connection.drop_table(table_name)
         end
       end
+
+      def normalize_migration_number(number)
+        "%.3d" % number.to_i
+      end
     end
 
     def version
diff --git a/activerecord/test/cases/ar_schema_test.rb b/activerecord/test/cases/ar_schema_test.rb
index 811695938e..861b8cbaa7 100644
--- a/activerecord/test/cases/ar_schema_test.rb
+++ b/activerecord/test/cases/ar_schema_test.rb
@@ -66,5 +66,12 @@ if ActiveRecord::Base.connection.supports_migrations?
       end
       assert_nothing_raised { @connection.select_all "SELECT * FROM fruits" }
     end
+
+    def test_normalize_version
+      assert_equal "118", ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number("0000118")
+      assert_equal "002", ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number("2")
+      assert_equal "017", ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number("0017")
+      assert_equal "20131219224947", ActiveRecord::SchemaMigration.normalize_migration_number("20131219224947")
+    end
   end
 end