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Enrollment
821
Middle
DISTRICT 947 · STATE 794
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PALM BEACH·NCES 120150001486
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL
1901 AVENUE S, RIVIERA BEACH, FL 33404 · (561) 845-4500 · Palm Beach County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL821 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of Florida public middle schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Florida public middle schools
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
50 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 17.5:1 · STATE 19.6:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
67%
547 students
DISTRICT 49% · STATE 50%
Community
6
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 264 | 32% |
| Grade 7 | 233 | 28% |
| Grade 8 | 324 | 39% |
Student demographics
54%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 70% · STATE 70% · 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
FAST / B.E.S.T. 2024-25 . % at Level 3 or AboveEnglish Language Arts
35.9%
FL avg 56.7% . +4.9pp since 2023
Math
44.5%
FL avg 58.9% . +3.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the FAST / B.E.S.T., Florida's statewide test, about 36 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 44 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Florida schools, those numbers are about 57 and 59. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
FAST / B.E.S.T. results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 35.9% | 44.5% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 41.0% |
% at Level 3 or Above, all students and all tested grades.
Source: FAST / B.E.S.T.. 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
39.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
47.8%
based on FL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 48% typical for Florida 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 Florida'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 JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (39.5% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 821 | 66.6% | 39.5% |
| BEAR LAKES MIDDLE SCHOOL WEST PALM BEACH | 841 | 64.8% | 40.0% |
| MEMORIAL MIDDLE ORLANDO | 712 | 69.2% | 31.1% |
| DAN MCCARTY MIDDLE SCHOOL FORT PIERCE | 657 | 68.2% | 41.3% |
| LOCKHART MIDDLE ORLANDO | 660 | 65.5% | 39.1% |
| HOWELL L. WATKINS MIDDLE SCHOOL PALM BEACH GARDENS | 705 | 67.1% | 39.3% |
Matched among Florida middle 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 JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Florida | In Palm Beach County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 39.5% | #470 of 560 | #28 of 36 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 44.5% | #440 of 560 ▼ 9 | #30 of 36 ▼ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 35.9% | #487 of 560 ▼ 1 | #32 of 36 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 821 | #279 of 584 | #26 of 38 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.4:1 | #59 of 547 | #13 of 36 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 53.6% | #342 of 553 | #23 of 36 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 66.6% | #94 of 565 | #4 of 36 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +5.7% | #96 of 137 | #5 of 7 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
821
-18 (-2%) vs 2020
-6% since 1990-91, when it was 873
Student : Teacher
16.4:1
was 16.4:1
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 | 821 | 50 | 16.4:1 | 67% (547) |
| 2023-24 | 824 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 72% (596) |
| 2022-23 | 826 | 48 | 17.2:1 | 78% (647) |
| 2020-21 | 839 | 51 | 16.4:1 | 96% (804) |
| 2017-18 | 777 | 53 | 14.7:1 | 92% (717) |
| 2015-16 | 716 | 47 | 15.2:1 | 96% (689) |
| 2010-11 | 688 | 46 | 15.0:1 | 92% (631) |
| 2000-01 | 1,438 | 76 | 18.9:1 | 73% (1,051) |
| 1990-91 | 873 | 50 | 17.5:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL
The public middle-grades school JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is located in RIVIERA BEACH, Florida. It teaches 821 students in grades 6 through 8.
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is in PALM BEACH, a district with 191,505 students across 233 schools.
The share of Black students at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 61%, a majority. The remaining students are 29% Hispanic and 6% White. Census figures show Palm Beach County is about 19% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 54, compared with 70 nationally.
Staffing at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes to 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 16.4:1. The school's 16.4:1 compares with an average of 19.6:1 for middle schools in Florida. On the income side, 67% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. The rate at public schools in Palm Beach County averages 45%, lower than here.
On the allk12 Grade, JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 19% of Florida public middle schools.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is -8.3 points: 39.5% actual, 47.8% predicted.
Census data for Palm Beach County show the median household earns about $83,581 a year, roughly 41% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 8%. Public schools in Palm Beach County number 245, with about 192,831 students.
SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL sits about 0.2 miles from JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL. JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes in 2nd of 5 nearby schools on average proficiency.
Federal data place JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL in the Suburb: Large locale, which means it is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over 4 years, enrollment stayed close to where it was, going from 839 to 821.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Palm Beach County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,533,806
Census ACS
Median income
$83,581
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
41%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
245
192,831 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PALM BEACH
- JOHN I. LEONARD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,262 students
- JUPITER HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,122 students
- PARK VISTA COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,881 students
- BOCA RATON COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,819 students
- PALM BEACH LAKES HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,809 students
- PALM BEACH CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 2,760 students
Other schools in RIVIERA BEACH
- SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,522 students
- INLET GROVE COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 714 students
- DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARYElementary · 529 students
- WEST RIVIERA ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 524 students
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 397 students
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOLElementary · 241 students
Other John F. Kennedy Middle schools
9 other US public schools in 6 states are named John F. Kennedy Middle. JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 10.
- JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLNORTH MIAMI BEACH, FL · 1,052 students
- JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLROCKLEDGE, FL · 447 students
- John F. Kennedy Middle SchoolEnfield, CT · 1,002 students
- John F. Kennedy MiddleCupertino, CA · 880 students
- John F. Kennedy MiddleRedwood City, CA · 808 students
Nearby schools
- SUNCOAST COMMUNITY HIGH SCHOOL0.2 mi · 1,522
- DR. MARY MCLEOD BETHUNE ELEMENTARY0.3 mi · 529
- WASHINGTON ELEMENTARY MAGNET SCHOOL0.5 mi · 241
- RIVIERA BEACH PREPARATORY & ACHIEVEMENT ACADEMY0.6 mi · 120
- TEEN PARENT PROGRAM - PK0.8 mi · 25
- LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 397
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 821 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
How many students per teacher at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 16.4:1 students per teacher at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 6% White, 29% Hispanic, 61% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JOHN F. KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is overseen by PALM BEACH in Palm Beach County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.