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Fast Facts
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Medford

Key educational benchmarks			Medford	Massachusetts
% of third graders who score proficient or above in reading on MCAS			55.0%	61.0%
% of students graduating high school within four years			79.9%	83.4%
Early education and care
% of children under age 6 with all parents in the labor force			70.8%	66.9%
# of preschool-aged (3-5 yrs) children			1,610	224,901
% of preschool-aged children enrolled in an early education program			66.7%	70.0%
# of public school preschool programs			2	470
# of licensed center-based programs			11	2,202
# of licensed family child care providers			46	7,871
# of programs that are Massachusetts Universal Pre-Kindergarten (UPK) Classroom Quality grantees			1	253
K-12 education¹
# of students enrolled in public school			4,872	953,369
% of public school students identified as low-income²			35.4%	35.2%
% of public school students whose first language is not English			21.9%	16.7%
% of public school students receiving special education services			18.4%	17.0%
% of public school kindergartners attending full-day kindergarten			100.0%	83.0%
# of full-day kindergarten classrooms supported by the MA Quality Full-Day Kindergarten grant			19	2,269

Child population	Birth-5		6-18
	Medford	Massachusetts	Medford	Massachusetts
# of children	3,464	442,592	6,648	1,074,498
% of children living below poverty³	9.5%	14.7%	3.9%	12.6%
% who are Black or African American	11.2%	7.4%	14.0%	7.3%
% who are Asian	9.2%	6.3%	6.7%	5.2%
% who are Hispanic or Latino	8.2%	16.9%	6.2%	13.9%
% who are White	61.9%	63.1%	66.7%	69.1%
% of students who are another race, or two or more races⁴	9.5%	6.2%	6.4%	4.4%

¹	Charter and vocational schools excluded from community data. Elementary data for districts with regional secondary schools, combined data for k-12 regional systems.
²	Low-income is defined as up to 185% of the federal poverty guideline, or $40,793 for a family of four.
³	Includes children birth to 17. The 2011 federal poverty guideline for a family of four is $22,350 per year.
⁴	Includes American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander.
Sources: Massachusetts Department of Early Education and Care, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, US Census 2010, American Community Survey 06-10, Opinion Dynamics Corporation