Enrollment
306
Elementary
DISTRICT 347 · STATE 321
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·MEDFORD SD 549C·NCES 410804000441
Wilson Elementary School
1400 Johnson St, Medford, OR 97504 · (541) 842-3870 · Jackson County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL306 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 32% 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.
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
18.0:1
17 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.6:1 · STATE 16.5:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
87%
267 students
DISTRICT 83% · STATE 76%
Community
0
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 | 57 | 19% |
| Grade 1 | 43 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 45 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 62 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 48 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 51 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (57) is 12% larger than its 5th grade class (51).
Student demographics
58%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
27.9%
OR avg 43.0% . -7.8pp since 2023
Math
26.6%
OR avg 31.8% . +1.8pp since 2023
What this means: On the OSAS, Oregon's statewide test, about 28 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 down about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
OSAS results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.9% | 26.6% |
| 2023-24 | 35.7% | 24.8% |
% 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
26.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
28.7%
based on OR schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.9pp
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 Wilson Elementary School
Wilson Elementary School's state test result (26.8% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wilson Elementary School this school | 306 | 87.3% | 26.8% |
| Englewood Elementary School Salem | 285 | 87.7% | 30.9% |
| Howard Elementary School Medford | 275 | 88.0% | 18.4% |
| Sam Case Elementary Newport | 353 | 90.1% | 29.3% |
| Clear Lake Elementary School Keizer | 317 | 87.7% | 43.3% |
| Myers Elementary School Salem | 342 | 88.3% | 41.1% |
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 Wilson Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Oregon | In Jackson County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 26.8% | #420 of 591 | #19 of 33 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 26.6% | #426 of 646 ▲ 31 | #21 of 33 ▼ 2 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.9% | #522 of 646 ▼ 117 | #26 of 33 ▼ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 306 | #394 of 710 | #20 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 18.0:1 | #399 of 587 | #21 of 30 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.0% | #182 of 587 | #3 of 30 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.3% | #209 of 645 | #18 of 34 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -44.9% | #9 of 493 | #2 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
306
-98 (-24%) vs 2020
-39% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
18.0:1
was 17.6:1
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 | 306 | 17 | 18.0:1 | 87% (267) |
| 2023-24 | 312 | 17 | 18.4:1 | 66% (205) |
| 2022-23 | 387 | 21.4 | 18.1:1 | 74% (285) |
| 2020-21 | 404 | 23 | 17.6:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 555 | 26 | 21.4:1 | 78% (434) |
| 2015-16 | 545 | 25 | 21.8:1 | 78% (426) |
| 2010-11 | 485 | 24 | 20.2:1 | 76% (371) |
| 2000-01 | 499 | 25 | 20.0:1 | 44% (219) |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 23 | 21.9:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Wilson Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 45% (555 to 306); teachers down 35% (26 to 17).
About Wilson Elementary School
Wilson Elementary School is a mid-sized elementary school in Oregon, with an address in Medford. It teaches 306 students in kindergarten through 5.
Medford SD 549C has 25 schools and 13,735 students, and Wilson Elementary School is one of those schools.
Of every 100 students at Wilson Elementary School, about 52 are White. Beyond that, enrollment is 38% Hispanic and 5% multiracial. The White share of the county population is higher, at 81%. The diversity index for Wilson Elementary School is 58%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
On staff are 17 full-time-equivalent teachers; the student-to-teacher ratio is 18.0:1. Elementary schools in Oregon have an average ratio of 16.5:1. About 87% of students at Wilson Elementary School are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch.
Wilson Elementary School earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 32% of Oregon public elementary schools.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, Wilson Elementary School is 1.9 points below its prediction. Actual: 26.8%. Predicted: 28.7%.
In Jackson County, median household income comes to about $73,999, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 32% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Jackson County counts 70 public schools with about 30,143 students.
North Medford High School is about 0.8 miles from Wilson Elementary School, the shortest distance to any other public school. A five-mile radius around the school includes at least 8 other public schools. Wilson Elementary School places 5th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Locale data from NCES put Wilson Elementary School inside a principal city with a population under 100,000 (City: Small).
Enrollment fell by 24% across 4 years, from 404 in 2020-21 to 306 in 2024-25.
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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 Wilson Elementary schools
59 other US public schools in 24 states are named Wilson Elementary. Wilson Elementary School is the 44th largest of the 60.
- WILSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOLSANFORD, FL · 896 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 756 students
- Wilson ElementaryFresno, CA · 669 students
- Wilson Elementary SchoolMurfreesboro, TN · 666 students
- Wilson ElementaryFishersville, VA · 655 students
Nearby schools
- North Medford High School0.8 mi · 1,721
- Kids Unlimited Academy0.8 mi · 505
- Hedrick Middle School1.2 mi · 952
- Roosevelt Elementary School1.2 mi · 308
- Kennedy Elementary School1.2 mi · 393
- Medford Online Academy1.3 mi · 69
Frequently asked questions
About Wilson Elementary SchoolHow large is Wilson Elementary School?
Wilson Elementary School enrolls approximately 306 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does Wilson Elementary School serve?
Wilson Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Wilson Elementary School?
Approximately 18.0:1 students per teacher at Wilson Elementary School.
How diverse is Wilson Elementary School?
Wilson Elementary School reports a student body of 52% White, 38% Hispanic, 1% Black, 2% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is Wilson Elementary School public or private?
Wilson Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by Medford SD 549C.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.