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Best kept secret at Kennedy Elementary School?
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Enrollment
393
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEDFORD SD 549C·NCES 410804000436
Kennedy Elementary School
2860 N Keene Way Dr, Medford, OR 97504 · (541) 842-3810 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
C
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Scored higher than 33% of Oregon public elementary schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C+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
17.0:1
23 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
342 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 | 49 | 12% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 23% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 72 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 55 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 69 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (49) is 29% smaller than its 5th grade class (69).
Student demographics
59%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
35.1%
OR avg 43.0% . +5.7pp since 2023
Math
26.8%
OR avg 31.8% . +1.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 35 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 27 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Oregon schools, those numbers are about 43 and 32. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.1% | 26.8% |
| 2023-24 | 29.4% | 25.7% |
% 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
27.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.8%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 27% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 29% 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 Kennedy Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School's state test result (27.0% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Elementary School this school | 393 | 87.0% | 27.0% |
| Myers Elementary School Salem | 342 | 88.3% | 41.1% |
| Gubser Elementary School Keizer | 423 | 87.9% | 28.4% |
| Jefferson Elementary School Medford | 381 | 87.9% | 34.0% |
| Abraham Lincoln Elementary Medford | 401 | 86.8% | 38.6% |
| Grandhaven Elementary School McMinnville | 446 | 84.3% | 39.7% |
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 Kennedy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 27.0% | #415 of 591 | #18 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #420 of 646 ▲ 29 | #20 of 33 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.1% | #427 of 646 ▲ 69 | #21 of 33 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #219 of 710 | #12 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.0:1 | #299 of 587 | #12 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.6% | #173 of 587 | #1 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.0% | #210 of 645 | #19 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -24.6% | #150 of 493 | #10 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
393
-88 (-18%) vs 2020
-29% since 1990-91, when it was 556
Student : Teacher
17.0:1
was 16.6:1
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 | 393 | 23.2 | 17.0:1 | 87% (342) |
| 2023-24 | 414 | 22.4 | 18.5:1 | 66% (272) |
| 2022-23 | 446 | 25 | 17.9:1 | 73% (324) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | 29 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 521 | 27.2 | 19.1:1 | 64% (335) |
| 2015-16 | 563 | 27 | 20.9:1 | 64% (362) |
| 2010-11 | 515 | 22 | 23.4:1 | 52% (269) |
| 2000-01 | 542 | 26 | 20.9:1 | 34% (182) |
| 1990-91 | 556 | 24 | 23.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 25% (521 to 393); teachers down 15% (27.2 to 23.2).
About Kennedy Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school in Medford, Oregon, (ZIP code 97504). The school serves 393 students in kindergarten through 5 in 2024-25. The average among elementary schools in Oregon is roughly 321 students; this school is 22% larger than that.
Medford SD 549C has 25 schools; together they serve 13,735 students.
White students account for 56% of enrollment at Kennedy Elementary School. Enrollment also includes 30% Hispanic and 8% multiracial. The school's White share is 25 points below the 81% share among Jackson County residents. The chance that two students picked at random at Kennedy Elementary School belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 59%.
Kennedy Elementary School employs 23.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. That gives a ratio of about 17.0:1. Elementary schools in Oregon have a similar average ratio of 16.5:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility was 87% in 2024-25.
Kennedy Elementary School is graded C by allk12, scoring above 33% of Oregon public elementary schools once test results, poverty-adjusted performance, and the recent trend are combined.
Based on its free or reduced-price lunch share, the BeatsExpectations model predicts an average proficiency rate on state tests of 28.8% for Kennedy Elementary School. The school posts 27.0%, 1.8 points below the prediction.
Jackson County has these Census figures: median household income is about $73,999, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 32%, and roughly 8% of residents are in poverty. Kennedy Elementary School is among the 70 public schools in Jackson County.
The closest public school, North Medford High School, is about 0.8 miles from Kennedy Elementary School. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Compared with its nearest neighbors, Kennedy Elementary School ranks 6th of 8 on average proficiency.
In the federal locale system, Kennedy Elementary School is coded City: Small, for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000.
Enrollment was 481 in 2020-21 and 393 in 2024-25, a decrease of 88 students.
The discussion area below is open to posts about enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Reviews and ratings from people who know the school are welcome.
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 Kennedy Elementary schools
30 other US public schools in 17 states are named Kennedy Elementary. Kennedy Elementary School is the 18th largest of the 31.
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolKeizer, OR · 358 students
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolWinder, GA · 764 students
- Kennedy ElementaryWILLMAR, MN · 672 students
- KENNEDY ELEMENTARYLAKEVILLE, MN · 638 students
- Kennedy ElementaryMadison, WI · 582 students
Nearby schools
- North Medford High School0.8 mi · 1,721
- Abraham Lincoln Elementary0.8 mi · 401
- Wilson Elementary School1.2 mi · 306
- Lone Pine Elementary School1.3 mi · 461
- The Valley School of Southern Oregon1.6 mi · 127
- Hedrick Middle School1.9 mi · 952
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Elementary SchoolHow large is Kennedy Elementary School?
Kennedy Elementary School enrolls approximately 393 students in grades KG-05.
Is Kennedy Elementary School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kennedy Elementary School is an elementary school covering grades KG-05.
How many students per teacher at Kennedy Elementary School?
Approximately 17.0:1 students per teacher at Kennedy Elementary School.
What is the student diversity at Kennedy Elementary School?
Student demographics at Kennedy Elementary School are roughly 56% White, 30% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 8% Two or more.
What district is Kennedy Elementary School in?
Kennedy Elementary School is part of Medford SD 549C.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.