Summary:
Medford has two public high schools serving grades 9–12: Medford High, a comprehensive school with 1,195 students, and Curtis-Tufts, a very small school with just 11 students. Both sit within the Medford district, which is ranked 189 of 351, at the 46th percentile, with 2 stars.
Medford High is the only one of the two with recent test scores. Its graduation rate is 93.7%, above the district's 90.9%, and its dropout rate is 4.5%, below the district's 5.0%. Its student-teacher ratio is 9.1, and per-student spending was $21,744 in 2020–2021. In all eight available test comparisons, the school scores above the district, but in six of eight it is below the state. Science is its strongest area: 10th-grade science reached 58.58% proficient in 2024–2025 versus the state's 45.89%, and Biology End of Course reached 45.36% in 2025–2026 versus the state's 37.68%. Still, 10th-grade science fell to 36.5% in 2025–2026 — a drop the district shared. Medford High earned 3 stars in 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, up from 2 stars in 2023–2024.
Curtis-Tufts is an extreme outlier: about 109 times smaller than Medford High, with the lowest student-teacher ratio (3.4) and highest per-student spending ($38,104) of the two. Its reported graduation rate is 14.3% and its dropout rate 28.6%, far worse than the district and Medford High; with only 11 students, a single student changing status could swing these figures dramatically. It has no test scores here and only an old 2002–2003 rank. Free/reduced-lunch data is not reported for either school, and spending figures come from 2020–2021 rather than 2024–2025, so comparisons across years are imperfect.
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