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.

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