Wilson Elementary School

Located at 1400 Johnson St, in Medford, Oregon, Wilson Elementary School is a medium-sized elementary school that hosts 306 students (grades K through 5), overseen by Medford SD 549C.

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

On the student-mix side, Wilson Elementary School lists that 52% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups; the rest breaks down as 38% Hispanic, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Jackson County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.5:1 average. Around 87% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Wilson Elementary School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 28.7%, the actual is 26.8%, a residual of -1.9 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Jackson County shows median household income runs about $73,999, roughly 32% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Jackson County runs 70 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,143 students), of which Wilson Elementary School is one.

Nearest neighbor: North Medford High School, around 0.8 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Wilson Elementary School comes 5th of 7 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 31.0%.

The school occupies an inner-city site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 45%: 555 students in 2018 compared to 306 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 26% to 38% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 today.

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