Medford

Medford has two schools: Medford Elementary School, serving prekindergarten through grade 8, and Medford High School, serving grades 9–12. Their 2025–2026 results show strengths in several subjects, but performance differs sharply by subject and school. The most important concern is high-school mathematics: just 7% were proficient, compared with 25% statewide.

Medford Elementary stands out most in science and elementary mathematics: all-grades proficiency was 76% in science versus 30% statewide and 45% in mathematics versus 25%; 3rd-grade mathematics was especially strong at 84% versus 33%. Still, results are not uniformly high: 5th-grade ELA matched the state at 28%, as did 8th-grade mathematics at 17%. Medford High stands out in ELA (51% versus 26% statewide) and U.S. History (56% versus 41%), but mathematics is its clear low point. Its science result, 40%, was also above the state’s 30%. Elementary’s all-grades results were higher than High’s by 38 points in mathematics and 36 points in science, while High’s ELA result was 14 points higher; these are not like-for-like comparisons because the schools serve different grades.

Recent results moved in different directions: from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, Elementary gained 5 points in ELA and 14 in science but fell 4 points in mathematics, while High declined in every reported subject—13 points in ELA, 27 in mathematics, 19 in science, and 11 in U.S. History. SchoolDigger’s High School ranking shifted from the 99th percentile in 2023–2024 to the 80th in 2025–2026; Elementary’s rose from the 31st percentile in 2014–2015 to the 88th in 2025–2026. Both schools had low chronic absenteeism in 2025–2026: 4% at Elementary and 3% at High, versus 16% statewide. In 2024–2025, free/reduced lunch eligible students were 50% at Elementary and 39% at High; reported student–teacher ratios were 11.2 and 8.7, respectively. These measures provide context, not explanations for results; comparisons between the schools are limited by their different grade spans.