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What's the most underrated thing about Kennedy Middle that outsiders don't know?
Community prompt from u/allk12. Replies below.
Enrollment
434
Middle
DISTRICT 520 · STATE 659
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EL CENTRO ELEMENTARY·NCES 061203001336
Kennedy Middle
900 North Sixth St., El Centro, CA 92243 · (760) 352-0444 · Imperial County
GRADES 07–08MIDDLE13-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL434 STUDENTS
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
25 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.8:1 · STATE 20.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
393 students
DISTRICT 80% · STATE 65%
Community
4
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade
Student demographics
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
CAASPP 2023-24 . % met or exceeded standardEnglish Language Arts
42.8%
CA avg 47.1% . +16.8pp since 2014
Math
24.8%
CA avg 35.6% . +7.8pp since 2014
What this means: On the CAASPP, California's statewide test, about 43 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 25 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all California schools, those numbers are about 47 and 36. Reading and writing scores are up about 17 points since 2014, while math scores are up about 8 points.
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
33.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
25.6%
based on CA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+8.2pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 26% 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 →
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
434
+64 (+17%) vs 2017
Student : Teacher
17.1:1
was 19.0:1
% White
1%
was 1%
% Hispanic
97%
was 98%
% Black
1%
was 1%
% Asian
0%
was 0%
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
About Kennedy Middle
Kennedy Middle, a close-knit middle school in El Centro, California, one of the schools within El Centro Elementary, instructs 434 students, covering grades 7 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 34% leaner than the state mean of about 659.
El Centro Elementary comprises 12 schools with combined enrollment of 5,157 students; Kennedy Middle is among them.
On demographics, Kennedy Middle reports that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. That is meaningfully more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.
Looking at school resources, Kennedy Middle reports 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.1:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 20.7:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Imperial County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.
With demographic context factored in, Kennedy Middle performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 25.6%, the actual is 33.7%, a residual of +8.2 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Imperial County put the typical household earns roughly $57,681 per year, about 16% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 17%. Across Imperial County's 76 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,513 students), Kennedy Middle is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: McKinley Elementary, around 0.2 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, Kennedy Middle comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 31.7%.
Kennedy Middle operates from a metropolitan location.
Trend over the last 7 years. Kennedy Middle's enrollment has climbed 17% since 2018, when it stood at 370 (now 434). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 19.0:1 in 2018 to 17.1:1 today.
On allk12, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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 El Centro Elementary
- Wilson Jr. HighMiddle · 605 students
- Harding ElementaryElementary · 601 students
- De Anza MagnetElementary · 504 students
- McKinley ElementaryElementary · 456 students
- Margaret Hedrick ElementaryElementary · 446 students
- Martin Luther King Jr. ElementaryElementary · 445 students
Other schools in El Centro
- Central Union HighHigh · 2,006 students
- Southwest HighHigh · 1,846 students
- McCabe ElementaryElementary · 1,109 students
- Wilson Jr. HighMiddle · 605 students
- Harding ElementaryElementary · 601 students
- De Anza MagnetElementary · 504 students
Nearby schools
- McKinley Elementary0.2 mi · 456
- Lincoln Elementary0.7 mi · 399
- Mt. Signal Virtual Academy1.0 mi · 60
- Central Union High1.0 mi · 2,006
- Ballington Academy for the Arts and Sciences1.1 mi · 230
- Booker T. Washington Elementary1.1 mi · 351
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy MiddleWhat is the total enrollment at Kennedy Middle?
Kennedy Middle enrolls approximately 434 students in grades 07-08.
What grades does Kennedy Middle serve?
Kennedy Middle serves grades 07-08.
How many teachers does Kennedy Middle have?
Kennedy Middle employs 25 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.1:1.
What is the student diversity at Kennedy Middle?
Student demographics at Kennedy Middle are roughly 1% White, 97% Hispanic, 1% Black, 0% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees Kennedy Middle?
Kennedy Middle is overseen by El Centro Elementary in Imperial County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.