Summary:
ZIP code 97504 in Medford, Oregon is home to eight public elementary schools — all serving grades K–5 and together enrolling about 3,054 students — with seven of them in Medford School District 549C and one, Orchard Hill Elementary School, in Phoenix-Talent School District 4.
Hoover Elementary School is the clear standout: it ranks in the 91st percentile with 5 stars and leads the area in English Language Arts (64.9%), math (63.4%) and science (70.1%), while also posting the lowest chronic absenteeism at 17.0%. At the other end, Jackson Elementary School ranks in the 7th percentile with 0 stars and has the lowest proficiency in the ZIP (ELA 19.4%, math 20.5%, science 12.8%), plus absenteeism of 36.7%. Wilson Elementary School has the highest absenteeism at 40.2% and has fallen to 1 star, while Lone Pine Elementary School (73rd percentile, 4 stars) and Abraham Lincoln Elementary (70th percentile, 3 stars) are the next strongest, both improving their standing over the past year.
Averages across the eight schools are ELA 41.6%, math 37.9% and science 32.4%, with chronic absenteeism at 29.0% — six of eight schools beat the state rate. Free/reduced lunch sits near 88% almost everywhere, so poverty is essentially constant here while results are not, which points to school-level factors such as instruction and attendance. Notably, per-student spending does not track outcomes: Hoover spends the least ($16,250) with the largest classes (ratio 21.2), while the smallest school, Orchard Hill Elementary School, spends the most ($21,540) — likely because fixed costs spread across fewer students. Science shows the widest gap between top and bottom schools.
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