John F. Kennedy Elementary

John F. Kennedy Elementary operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in Dinuba, California, run under Dinuba Unified. Current enrollment sits at 488 students spanning grades K through 6.

John F. Kennedy Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Dinuba Unified, a district that hosts 6,242 students overall.

Demographically, John F. Kennedy Elementary logs that 92% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. The remainder consists of 6% White. By comparison, Tulare County as a whole is about 67% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the resource side, On paper, John F. Kennedy Elementary has 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 23.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. Roughly 84% of students at John F. Kennedy Elementary qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, John F. Kennedy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 29.2%; this one delivers 38.7%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Tulare County put the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, roughly 17% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. John F. Kennedy Elementary is one of 196 public schools in Tulare County (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students).

Nearest neighbor: Washington Intermediate, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts John F. Kennedy Elementary at 5th of 7; the average score across the group is 40.6%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 8%: 528 students in 2018 compared to 488 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share expanded from 1% to 6%.

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