Summary:
ZIP code 54451 is home to one high school, Medford High, a grades 9–12 school with 667 students in the Medford Area Public School District. Because it is the only high school in the area, the useful comparisons are between Medford High and its district and state averages.
Academically, the picture is mixed but improving. Medford High raised proficiency in every tested subject from 2024-2025 to 2025-2026: Mathematics rose 8.90 points to 51.01%, Social Studies 7.79 points to 39.24%, Science 4.37 points to 44.97%, and English Language Arts 1.98 points to 33.56%. Mathematics is the clearest strength — at 51.01% proficient, the school is above both the district (48.21%) and the state (42.93%). Science is also above the state (43.20%) but below the district (48.21%). The main academic gap is English Language Arts, where 33.56% proficiency trails the district (38.46%) and the state (48.47%) by a wide margin; Social Studies likewise falls below both. Notably, the gap between math and ELA proficiency widened from 10.53 points to 17.45 points, even as both subjects improved.
Beyond test scores, completion outcomes look solid: the graduation rate is 92.4%, just above the state's 92.0% though below the district's 94.0%, and the dropout rate of 0.9% is lower than both. The main concern is attendance — chronic absenteeism is 21.8%, well above the district's 14.7% and the state's 17.3%, meaning more than one in five students are chronically absent. The school's rank recovered from 1 star and the 21st percentile in 2024-2025 to 2 stars and the 44th percentile in 2025-2026, still below the district's 3-star, 60th-percentile standing. For context, 34.03% of students are eligible for free/reduced-price lunch, spending per student is $13,975, and the student-teacher ratio is 12.1.
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