South Medford High School

South Medford High School is one of the big high schools in Medford, Oregon, overseen by Medford SD 549C, with 1,856 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 630 students per school, that is 195% above typical.

Within Medford SD 549C, which oversees 25 schools and 13,735 students, South Medford High School is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, South Medford High School logs that 56% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 35% 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 resource side, South Medford High School reports 78 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.8:1 average. Roughly 87% of students at South Medford High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, South Medford High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.9%, the actual is 34.4%, a residual of +5.5 points.

Around the school, 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 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 South Medford High School is one.

The closest other public school is Washington Elementary School, roughly 0.9 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, South Medford High School comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 24.7%.

South Medford High School operates from a downtown location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count climbed 7%: 1,737 students in 2018 compared to 1,856 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 63% to 56% across the same window.

On the community side, the feed for South Medford High School typically covers fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.