Summary:
ZIP code 02155 is home to two high schools, both part of the Medford district and both serving grades 9–12: Medford High and Curtis-Tufts. The two could hardly be more different in scale. Medford High enrolls 1,195 students, while Curtis-Tufts enrolls just 11 — so Medford High accounts for roughly 99% of the combined enrollment in this area. Free/reduced-lunch data are not reported for either school, and spending figures date from 2020–2021.
Medford High is a large comprehensive high school with a 93.7% graduation rate in 2024–2025, above the district's 90.9%, and a 4.5% dropout rate, below the district's 5.0%. Its recent state rank sits around the middle: 178th of 353 in 2025–2026 (3 stars) and 163rd of 349 in 2024–2025 (3 stars). Test scores generally run slightly above the Medford district but below the state in ELA, Math, and Science — with two exceptions where it beat the state: 10th-grade Science in 2024–2025 (58.58% proficient vs. 45.89% statewide) and Biology End of Course in 2025–2026 (45.36% vs. 37.68%). Science then fell sharply to 36.5% in 2025–2026.
Curtis-Tufts is the outlier. It spends $38,104 per student (2020–2021), about 75% more than Medford High's $21,744, and its student-teacher ratio is 3.4 versus 9.1 — a pattern typical of a small, specialized, or alternative program. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate is 14.3% and dropout rate 28.6%, but with only 11 students a single student shifts these rates substantially. It has no MCAS scores here and its only rank entry is from 2002–2003, too old to reflect current performance. Parents should read its outcomes with that scale and mission in mind.
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