Howard Elementary School

Howard Elementary School is an elementary campus of moderately sized scale in Medford, Oregon, overseen by Medford SD 549C, caters to 275 students in grades K through 5.

Medford SD 549C runs 25 schools in total, collectively educating 13,735 students. Howard Elementary School is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Howard Elementary School lists that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 44% Hispanic, 5% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews noticeably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school lists 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 88% of students at Howard Elementary School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

With demographic context factored in, Howard Elementary School tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 28.4% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 18.4%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that median household income runs about $73,999, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Jackson County runs 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), of which Howard Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Rogue Primary School, around 1.3 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Howard Elementary School ranks 6th on composite proficiency, below the local average of 23.4%.

Howard Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Howard Elementary School's enrollment has ticked down 40% since 2018, when it stood at 460 (now 275). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 20.2:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 today.

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