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Enrollment
513
Elementary
DISTRICT 497 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362247003163
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
281 MEDFORD AVE, PATCHOGUE, NY 11772 · (631) 687-8300 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL513 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
44 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
165 students
DISTRICT 40% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 54 | 11% |
| Kindergarten | 86 | 17% |
| Grade 1 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 2 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 14% |
| Grade 4 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 79 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (86) is 9% larger than its 5th grade class (79).
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
48.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +16.0pp since 2023
Math
38.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +4.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 48 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 38 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 16 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 48.0% | 38.0% |
| 2023-24 | 32.0% | 34.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
35.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-27.6pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 36% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 63% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's state test result (35.5% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 513 | 32.2% | 35.5% |
| JOHN M MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST HAMPTON | 517 | 29.6% | 41.6% |
| BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 430 | 33.7% | 36.8% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BREWSTER | 592 | 35.8% | N/A |
| CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PATCHOGUE | 596 | 34.9% | 35.7% |
| RILEY AVENUE SCHOOL CALVERTON | 520 | 32.7% | 42.5% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 35.5% | #1,816 of 2,335 | #139 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 38.0% | #1,922 of 2,342 ▼ 33 | #147 of 169 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 48.0% | #1,433 of 2,343 ▲ 251 | #92 of 169 ▲ 21 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 513 | #767 of 2,585 | #74 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.7:1 | #1,144 of 2,338 | #99 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.8% | #1,070 of 2,388 | #99 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 32.2% | #1,922 of 2,534 | #104 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.9% | #1,550 of 1,757 | #111 of 137 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
513
+67 (+15%) vs 2020
0% since 1990-91, when it was 513
Student : Teacher
11.7:1
was 11.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 513 | 43.8 | 11.7:1 | 32% (165) |
| 2023-24 | 438 | 38.7 | 11.3:1 | 48% (211) |
| 2022-23 | 451 | 40.6 | 11.1:1 | 42% (189) |
| 2020-21 | 446 | 40 | 11.2:1 | 63% (279) |
| 2017-18 | 534 | 35 | 15.3:1 | 58% (311) |
| 2015-16 | 585 | 33 | 17.7:1 | 63% (366) |
| 2010-11 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 34% (201) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | 41% (242) |
| 1990-91 | 513 | 29 | 17.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
This page covers MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school in PATCHOGUE, New York. The school counted 513 students in 2024-25, covering pre-K through 5.
Across its 11 schools, PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT enrolls 7,605 students. MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of those schools.
The share of Hispanic students at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 59%, a majority. Smaller groups are 33% White, 4% Black, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 23% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
For every teacher at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, there are about 11.7 students; the school has 43.8 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher. There are 165 students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, 32% of enrollment.
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 11% of New York public elementary schools.
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 27.6 points below expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the bottom 10% in New York.
In Suffolk County, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Suffolk County has 343 public schools with about 222,439 students, including MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, is about 0.6 miles. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 8th of 8 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
NCES assigns MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL the locale Suburb: Large, meaning in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The school's student count rose 15% between the 2020-21 and 2024-25 school years.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,487 students
- EAGLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 680 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- OREGON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 545 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
Other schools in PATCHOGUE
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCESCombined · 2,043 students
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 596 students
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 579 students
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 515 students
- SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 513 students
- BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 430 students
Other Medford Elementary schools
3 other US public schools in 4 states are named Medford Elementary. MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 4.
- Medford ElementaryMedford, WI · 587 students
- Medford ElementaryMEDFORD, MN · 466 students
- Medford Elementary SchoolMedford, OK · 240 students
Nearby schools
- SAXTON MIDDLE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 579
- EASTERN SUFFOLK BOCES0.6 mi · 2,043
- BARTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 515
- BAY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.1 mi · 430
- SOUTH OCEAN MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 513
- CANAAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.2 mi · 596
Frequently asked questions
About MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow large is MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 513 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is approximately 11.7:1 (44 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
At MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 33% White, 59% Hispanic, 4% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL in?
MEDFORD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is part of PATCHOGUE-MEDFORD UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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