MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in PATCHOGUE, New York, MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized K-5 school, overseen by PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. It instructs 513 students across grades pre-K through 5.

PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 11 schools in total, collectively educating 7,605 students. MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Demographically, MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest is composed of 33% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial. By comparison, Suffolk County as a whole is about 23% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs 44 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 32% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 63.2%; this one comes in at 35.5%, -27.6 points off the demographic line.

In the area at large, census data for Suffolk County shows the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.6 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 8th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

The school occupies a commuter-belt site.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has edged down 4%, going from 534 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 11.7:1 in 2025.

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