NCES CCD 2024-25 8 schools MA

Best-Resourced Schools in Medford, MA

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8 public K-12 schools in Medford from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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8
Schools
4,170
Students
43.6/100
Avg Resource Index
10.4:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Medford has more public-school enrollment than 47% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Medford sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

Combined-grade campuses shape the local portfolio

4 of Medford's 8 listed schools use NCES's combined or “other” grade-level classification. Citywide averages therefore blend campuses serving unusually broad or nonstandard grade spans with conventional elementary, middle, and high schools. Grade configuration is a first-order comparison here, not a minor label.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Medford lists only 8 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 11 to 1,195 students, a 109-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 53%
School count
Top 54%
Resource Index average
63rd percentile
Teacher staffing
98th percentile

Medford High accounts for 28.7% of all Medford public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Medford-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Medford school enrollment varies 109× across entities

Medford school enrollment ranges from 11 students (lowest) to 1,195 students (highest), a spread of 1,184 students. That ratio is an extreme outlier spread — among the widest gaps observed anywhere in this dataset. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Medford operates one school district — a single-district system

Medford's listed schools share one district boundary, budget authority, and reporting chain. That makes citywide and districtwide governance easier to compare, but it does not make individual campuses uniform: grade configuration, staffing, programs, and student need can still vary materially within the same school district.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Medford student-teacher ratio is 10.4:1 — low (typically associated with smaller schools or per-school staffing investment that often correlates with stronger per-student supports)

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

# School Score
1. Curtis-Tufts 69
2. Madeleine Dugger Andrews 48
3. John J. Mcglynn Middle School 47
4. Medford High 42
5. John J Mcglynn Elementary School 38
6. Brooks School 37
7. Missituk Elementary School 37
8. Milton Fuller Roberts 31

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Medford

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 John J Mcglynn Elementary School 72.6/100
  2. 2 John J. Mcglynn Middle School 67.9/100
  3. 3 Curtis-Tufts 67.7/100
  4. 4 Medford High 64.7/100
  5. 5 Missituk Elementary School 62.3/100

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Which Medford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Curtis-Tufts has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Medford schools in this federal-data comparison at 69/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Medford, MA? ▼

Medford has 8 public schools with a total enrollment of 4,170 students. Average student-teacher ratio: 10.4:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.