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Enrollment
484
Elementary
DISTRICT 555 · STATE 465
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CALEXICO UNIFIED·NCES 060690000638
Kennedy Gardens Elementary
2300 Rockwood Ave., Calexico, CA 92231 · (760) 768-3842 · Imperial County
GRADES KG–06ELEMENTARY31-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL484 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 13% of California public elementary schools
- FTest 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.
- A-Three-year trend Change in reading and math proficiency over the last three test years.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded California public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
20 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 24.5:1 · STATE 22.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
452 students
DISTRICT 89% · STATE 65%
Community
6
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 | 78 | 16% |
| Grade 1 | 52 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 75 | 15% |
| Grade 3 | 65 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 69 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 15% |
| Grade 6 | 71 | 15% |
This year's kindergarten class (78) is 10% larger than its 6th grade class (71).
Student demographics
3%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 2% · STATE 62% · 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
CAASPP 2024-25 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
19.2%
CA avg 49.1% . +6.2pp since 2014
Math
15.4%
CA avg 37.7% . +4.4pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 19 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 15 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 49 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 6 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 4 points.
Performance levels, 2024-25
| Subject | Standard Exceeded | Standard Met | Standard Nearly Met | Standard Not Met |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| English Language Arts | 5.3% | 13.9% | 20.3% | 60.5% |
| Math | 3.8% | 11.7% | 19.9% | 64.7% |
Share of tested students at each CAASPP level. Each student counts in one level, so a row adds to about 100%.
CAASPP results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 19.2% | 15.4% |
| 2023-24 | 17.4% | 8.6% |
| 2022-23 | 22.2% | 11.2% |
| 2021-22 | 13.0% | 6.0% |
| 2018-19 | 30.7% | 14.7% |
| 2017-18 | 20.4% | 10.3% |
| 2016-17 | 20.0% | 8.2% |
| 2015-16 | 18.0% | 8.0% |
| 2014-15 | 13.0% | 11.0% |
% met or exceeded standard, all students and all tested grades.
Source: CAASPP. 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
15.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
24.8%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-9.8pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 15% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 25% typical for California 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 California'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 Kennedy Gardens Elementary
Kennedy Gardens Elementary's state test result (15.0% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Gardens Elementary this school | 484 | 93.4% | 15.0% |
| Madison Elementary South Gate | 482 | 94.0% | 35.9% |
| John Kelley Elementary Thermal | 505 | 93.3% | 23.1% |
| Pio Pico Elementary Santa Ana | 501 | 94.0% | 11.7% |
| Gabilan Elementary Soledad | 456 | 92.5% | 33.7% |
| Terra Bella Elementary Terra Bella | 455 | 93.4% | 33.4% |
Matched among California 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 Kennedy Gardens Elementary ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In California | In Imperial County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 15.0% | #4,936 of 5,151 | #33 of 35 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 15.4% | #4,710 of 5,172 ▲ 353 | #32 of 35 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 19.2% | #4,891 of 5,172 ▲ 24 | #33 of 35 no change |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest gain first | +7.8pp | #943 of 5,116 | #8 of 35 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 484 | #2,640 of 5,915 | #17 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 24.2:1 | #3,897 of 5,352 | #29 of 34 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 2.9% | #5,298 of 5,354 | #29 of 34 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 93.4% | #652 of 5,625 | #8 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -18.1% | #1,634 of 3,837 | #10 of 23 |
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
484
-66 (-12%) vs 2020
+14% since 1990-91, when it was 424
Student : Teacher
24.2:1
was 22.9:1
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 | 484 | 20 | 24.2:1 | 93% (452) |
| 2023-24 | 529 | 21 | 25.2:1 | 93% (494) |
| 2022-23 | 530 | 21 | 25.2:1 | 91% (480) |
| 2020-21 | 550 | 24 | 22.9:1 | 89% (488) |
| 2017-18 | 591 | 25 | 23.6:1 | 91% (537) |
| 2015-16 | 587 | 25 | 23.5:1 | 85% (500) |
| 2010-11 | 673 | N/A | N/A | 83% (557) |
| 2000-01 | 627 | 33 | 19.0:1 | 91% (571) |
| 1990-91 | 424 | 16 | 26.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Gardens Elementary.
Since 2017-18: students down 18% (591 to 484); teachers down 20% (25 to 20).
About Kennedy Gardens Elementary
Kennedy Gardens Elementary is a public elementary school in Calexico, California. Students in kindergarten through 6 make up the school's enrollment of 484 students.
Kennedy Gardens Elementary is one of 12 schools in Calexico Unified, which enrolls 8,022 students in total.
Kennedy Gardens Elementary is 98% Hispanic by enrollment. Census estimates put the Hispanic share of Imperial County's population at about 86%. The diversity index for Kennedy Gardens Elementary is 3%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
The school's 20 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.2:1. Elementary schools in California have an average ratio of 22.3:1. At Kennedy Gardens Elementary, 93% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. The rate at public schools in Imperial County averages 77%, lower than here.
Kennedy Gardens Elementary earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 13% of California public elementary schools.
Kennedy Gardens Elementary's actual average proficiency rate across its state test results (15.0%) and its predicted rate (24.8%) put it outside the top and bottom 10% of California schools.
Looking at the county, Imperial County, the median household earns about $57,681 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 16%, and about 17% of people live in poverty. Counting Kennedy Gardens Elementary, Imperial County has 76 public schools.
The closest school to Kennedy Gardens Elementary is Rockwood Elementary, located about 0.9 miles away. In all, at least 8 other public schools sit within five miles of Kennedy Gardens Elementary. Its average proficiency rate of 15.0% is below the 23.4% average for nearby schools.
By NCES locale, the school is Town: Fringe, or in a town close to an urbanized area.
The school shrank from 550 students in 2020-21 to 484 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 22.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 24.2:1.
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Imperial County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
180,202
Census ACS
Median income
$57,681
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
16%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
17%
Below federal line
Schools in county
76
36,513 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Calexico Unified
- Calexico HighHigh · 2,746 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryElementary · 765 students
- Enrique Camarena Jr. HighMiddle · 674 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 625 students
- William Moreno Junior HighMiddle · 618 students
- Rockwood ElementaryElementary · 617 students
Other schools in Calexico
- Calexico HighHigh · 2,746 students
- Cesar Chavez ElementaryElementary · 765 students
- Enrique Camarena Jr. HighMiddle · 674 students
- Jefferson ElementaryElementary · 625 students
- William Moreno Junior HighMiddle · 618 students
- Rockwood ElementaryElementary · 617 students
Nearby schools
- Rockwood Elementary0.9 mi · 617
- Calexico High1.0 mi · 2,746
- Cesar Chavez Elementary1.1 mi · 765
- Dool Elementary1.2 mi · 568
- Mains Elementary1.2 mi · 408
- William Moreno Junior High1.3 mi · 618
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Gardens ElementaryHow many students attend Kennedy Gardens Elementary?
Kennedy Gardens Elementary enrolls approximately 484 students in grades KG-06.
Is Kennedy Gardens Elementary an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kennedy Gardens Elementary is an elementary school covering grades KG-06.
How many teachers does Kennedy Gardens Elementary have?
Kennedy Gardens Elementary employs 20 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 24.2:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at Kennedy Gardens Elementary?
At Kennedy Gardens Elementary, the student body is approximately 1% White, 98% Hispanic, 0% Black, 0% Asian, 0% Two or more.
Who oversees Kennedy Gardens Elementary?
Kennedy Gardens Elementary is overseen by Calexico Unified in Imperial County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.