Kennedy Elementary

As a low-enrollment K-5 school in Lindsay, California, Kennedy Elementary educates 376 students from grades K through 8, part of Lindsay Unified.

Kennedy Elementary is one of 10 schools operated by Lindsay Unified, a district that educates 3,928 students overall.

On the student-mix side, Kennedy Elementary records that nearly all students (94%) are Hispanic. The remainder looks like 5% White. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 67%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 25.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 22.3:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Tulare County's rate of about 77%.

After controlling for student poverty, Kennedy Elementary sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 27.2%; this one delivers 32.0%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Tulare County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $71,300 per year, 17% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Tulare County runs 196 public schools (combined enrollment of about 101,494 students), of which Kennedy Elementary is one.

Lindsay Senior High is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kennedy Elementary comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 29.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kennedy Elementary has shrank 15%, going from 443 students in 2018 to 376 in 2025.

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