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Enrollment
381
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEDFORD SD 549C·NCES 410804000433
Jefferson Elementary School
333 Holmes Ave, Medford, OR 97501 · (541) 842-3800 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL381 STUDENTS
B
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 57% of Oregon public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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 Oregon public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
335 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 76%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 50 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 68 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 61 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 71 | 19% |
This year's kindergarten class (50) is 30% smaller than its 5th grade class (71).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 53% · STATE 59% · 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
OSAS 2024-25 . % ProficientEnglish Language Arts
39.5%
OR avg 43.0% . -2.3pp since 2023
Math
33.7%
OR avg 31.8% . +3.5pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 40 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 34 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 4 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 39.5% | 33.7% |
| 2023-24 | 41.8% | 30.2% |
% Proficient, all students and all tested grades.
Source: OSAS. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
34.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.4%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+5.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 28% typical for Oregon schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Oregon's top nor bottom 10%.
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 Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School's state test result (34.0% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jefferson Elementary School this school | 381 | 87.9% | 34.0% |
| Kennedy Elementary School Medford | 393 | 87.0% | 27.0% |
| Myers Elementary School Salem | 342 | 88.3% | 41.1% |
| Wascher Elementary School Lafayette | 371 | 82.2% | 36.1% |
| Gubser Elementary School Keizer | 423 | 87.9% | 28.4% |
| Taft Elementary School Lincoln City | 464 | 90.9% | 19.6% |
Matched among Oregon 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 Jefferson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #296 of 591 | #13 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 33.7% | #323 of 646 ▲ 49 | #15 of 33 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #354 of 646 ▼ 50 | #16 of 33 ▼ 6 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 381 | #247 of 710 | #14 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.9:1 | #291 of 587 | #11 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #268 of 587 | #13 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.9% | #188 of 645 | #12 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -23.5% | #172 of 493 | #13 of 28 |
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
381
-31 (-8%) vs 2020
-13% since 1990-91, when it was 438
Student : Teacher
16.9:1
was 19.6:1
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 | 381 | 22.5 | 16.9:1 | 88% (335) |
| 2023-24 | 393 | 21.8 | 18.0:1 | 65% (256) |
| 2022-23 | 439 | 22.5 | 19.5:1 | 49% (214) |
| 2020-21 | 412 | 21 | 19.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 498 | 22.2 | 22.4:1 | 82% (408) |
| 2015-16 | 466 | 21 | 22.2:1 | 82% (381) |
| 2010-11 | 495 | 22 | 22.5:1 | 69% (344) |
| 2000-01 | 548 | 27 | 20.3:1 | 46% (252) |
| 1990-91 | 438 | 22 | 19.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Jefferson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 23% (498 to 381); teachers up 1% (22.2 to 22.5).
About Jefferson Elementary School
Jefferson Elementary School runs as a mid-sized elementary school in Medford, Oregon. The school runs kindergarten through 5 and enrolls 381 students.
Across its 25 schools, Medford SD 549C enrolls 13,735 students. Jefferson Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Jefferson Elementary School, about 60 are White. After that, the student body is 32% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. Among all residents of Jackson County, the White share is about 81%. The diversity index for Jefferson Elementary School is 53%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Classroom staffing at Jefferson Elementary School totals 22.5 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 16.9:1. The 16.5:1 average for elementary schools in Oregon is close to this figure. Federal data show 88% of students (335) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Jefferson Elementary School holds a B allk12 Grade, placing it above 57% of Oregon public elementary schools.
In Oregon, Jefferson Elementary School is in the middle band of BeatsExpectations: 34.0% actual against a predicted 28.4%.
For the population of Jackson County, the median household earns about $73,999 a year, about 32% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 8%. Jefferson Elementary School shares Jackson County with 69 other public schools.
Oakdale Middle School sits about 0.5 miles from Jefferson Elementary School. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 33.1% proficiency; Jefferson Elementary School posts 34.0%.
NCES describes the area around Jefferson Elementary School as City: Small, meaning inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
In 2024-25, the school enrolled 381, down from 412 in 2020-21. From 2020-21 to 2024-25, the ratio dropped from 19.6:1 to 16.9:1.
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Jackson County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
222,645
Census ACS
Median income
$73,999
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
32%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
70
30,143 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Medford SD 549C
- South Medford High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- North Medford High SchoolHigh · 1,721 students
- Logos Charter SchoolCombined · 1,285 students
- Hedrick Middle SchoolMiddle · 952 students
- McLoughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Oakdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
Other schools in Medford
- South Medford High SchoolHigh · 1,856 students
- North Medford High SchoolHigh · 1,721 students
- Logos Charter SchoolCombined · 1,285 students
- Hedrick Middle SchoolMiddle · 952 students
- McLoughlin Middle SchoolMiddle · 826 students
- Oakdale Middle SchoolMiddle · 745 students
Other Jefferson Elementary schools
143 other US public schools in 31 states are named Jefferson Elementary. Jefferson Elementary School is the 63rd largest of the 144.
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolJefferson, OR · 272 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolJefferson, GA · 1,011 students
- Jefferson ElementaryRiverside, CA · 886 students
- Jefferson ElementaryLennox, CA · 716 students
- Jefferson Elementary SchoolCharleston, IL · 698 students
Nearby schools
- Oakdale Middle School0.5 mi · 745
- Innovation Academy0.9 mi · 327
- Washington Elementary School0.9 mi · 221
- South Medford High School1.2 mi · 1,856
- Medford Online Academy1.2 mi · 69
- McLoughlin Middle School1.5 mi · 826
Frequently asked questions
About Jefferson Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School enrolls approximately 381 students in grades KG-05.
What grades does Jefferson Elementary School serve?
Jefferson Elementary School serves grades KG-05.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Jefferson Elementary School is approximately 16.9:1 (23 FTE teachers).
How diverse is Jefferson Elementary School?
Jefferson Elementary School reports a student body of 60% White, 32% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 5% Two or more.
What district is Jefferson Elementary School in?
Jefferson Elementary School is part of Medford SD 549C.
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