JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL

As an average-sized middle-grades school in NORTH MIAMI BEACH, Florida, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL instructs 1,052 students from grades 6 through 8, run under MIAMI-DADE. Enrollment runs roughly 32% above the state mean of about 794.

MIAMI-DADE runs 527 schools in total, collectively educating 335,685 students. JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 73% of enrollment. The remainder consists of 21% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% Asian. By comparison, Miami-Dade County as a whole is about 15% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL shows 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 23.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 19.6:1 average. Roughly 55% of students at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 53.7%; this one delivers 53.8%.

In the broader community, Miami-Dade County reports that the typical household earns roughly $71,753 per year, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 11%. Across Miami-Dade County's 561 public schools (combined enrollment of about 335,817 students), JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: NORTH MIAMI BEACH SENIOR HIGH, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 1st of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 44.7%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site.

Trend over the last 7 years. JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL's enrollment has edged down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 1,094 (now 1,052). Black enrollment moved from 68% to 73% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 21.4:1 in 2018 to 23.4:1 today.

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