Lone Pine Elementary School

Lone Pine Elementary School is one of the middle-of-the-pack K-5 schools in Medford, Oregon, one of the schools within Medford SD 549C, with 461 students on its rolls from grades K through 5. By comparison, Oregon's public schools average about 321 students each, so Lone Pine Elementary School sits 44% larger than that benchmark.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Lone Pine Elementary School logs that 75% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 16% Hispanic, 6% multiracial.

On the resource side, Lone Pine Elementary School shows 23 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

With demographic context factored in, Lone Pine Elementary School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 28.6%; this one delivers 44.9%.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (Jackson County) logs that median household income runs about $73,999, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 8%. Lone Pine Elementary School is one of 70 public schools in Jackson County (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students).

The Valley School of Southern Oregon is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.8 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Lone Pine Elementary School ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 38.4%.

Lone Pine Elementary School operates from an urban location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count fell 23%: 598 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 22.3:1 in 2018 to 19.7:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.