Jefferson Elementary School

As an average-sized K-5 school in Medford, Oregon, Jefferson Elementary School instructs 381 students from grades K through 5, overseen by Medford SD 549C.

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

Demographically, Jefferson Elementary School shows that the largest single group is White, at 60% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school records 32% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Jefferson Elementary School lists 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 16.9:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Jefferson Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.4%; this one delivers 34.0%.

Zooming out to the county, community-level numbers for Jackson County indicate the typical household earns roughly $73,999 per year, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Jefferson Elementary School is one of 70 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students).

Oakdale Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Jefferson Elementary School. On composite proficiency, Jefferson Elementary School comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 33.1%.

Jefferson Elementary School operates from an inner-city location.

Over the past 7-year window. Jefferson Elementary School's enrollment has fell 23% since 2018, when it stood at 498 (now 381). Over the same period, the Hispanic share fell from 39% to 32%. Class-load math has fell: from 22.4:1 in 2018 to 16.9:1 in 2025.

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