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Enrollment
764
Elementary
DISTRICT 704 · STATE 605
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BARROW COUNTY·NCES 130029002016
Kennedy Elementary School
200 Matthews School Rd, Winder, GA 30680 · (770) 867-3182 · Barrow County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY23-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL764 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 24% of Georgia public elementary schools
- C+Test 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.
- CThree-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 Georgia public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
61 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.8:1 · STATE 13.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
68%
522 students
DISTRICT 61% · STATE 74%
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 45 | 6% |
| Kindergarten | 118 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 107 | 14% |
| Grade 2 | 126 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 117 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 121 | 16% |
| Grade 5 | 130 | 17% |
This year's kindergarten class (118) is 9% smaller than its 5th grade class (130).
Student demographics
71%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 69% · STATE 71% · 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
Georgia Milestones 2024-25 . % Proficient or DistinguishedEnglish Language Arts
27.5%
GA avg 40.1% . -1.7pp since 2021
Math
39.7%
GA avg 44.6% . +0.5pp since 2021
What this means: On the Georgia Milestones, Georgia's statewide test, about 28 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 40 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Georgia schools, those numbers are about 40 and 45. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2021, while math scores have held steady.
Georgia Milestones results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 27.5% | 39.7% |
| 2023-24 | 34.7% | 39.2% |
| 2022-23 | 27.3% | 34.2% |
| 2021-22 | 29.3% | 39.3% |
% Proficient or Distinguished, all students and all tested grades.
Source: Georgia Milestones. 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
33.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.0%
based on GA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-8.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 34% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% typical for Georgia 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 Georgia'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 Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School's state test result (33.5% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Elementary School this school | 764 | 68.3% | 33.5% |
| Auburn Elementary School Auburn | 678 | 67.4% | 29.5% |
| Yargo Elementary School Winder | 782 | 64.7% | 30.2% |
| Flowery Branch Elementary School Flowery Branch | 711 | 63.9% | 30.1% |
| Austin Road Elementary School Winder | 700 | 61.3% | 35.7% |
| Winder Elementary School Winder | 656 | 73.6% | 28.8% |
Matched among Georgia 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 Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Georgia | In Barrow County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 33.5% | #709 of 1,208 | #6 of 10 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 39.7% | #623 of 1,215 ▼ 3 | #6 of 10 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 27.5% | #806 of 1,215 ▼ 156 | #8 of 10 ▼ 4 |
| 3-year test score change ranked biggest drop first | -0.6pp | #375 of 1,183 | #2 of 9 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 764 | #280 of 1,324 | #4 of 10 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 12.6:1 | #424 of 1,301 | #8 of 10 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 71.2% | #91 of 1,301 | #3 of 10 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.3% | #851 of 1,312 | #2 of 10 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.0% | #671 of 854 | #6 of 7 |
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
764
-130 (-15%) vs 2020
+21% since 1990-91, when it was 629
Student : Teacher
12.6:1
was 13.6:1
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 | 764 | 60.5 | 12.6:1 | 68% (522) |
| 2023-24 | 748 | 61.9 | 12.1:1 | 75% (562) |
| 2022-23 | 928 | 67.7 | 13.7:1 | 60% (554) |
| 2020-21 | 894 | 66 | 13.6:1 | 53% (475) |
| 2017-18 | 813 | 61 | 13.3:1 | 71% (576) |
| 2015-16 | 844 | 61 | 13.8:1 | 68% (574) |
| 2010-11 | 676 | 49 | 13.8:1 | 68% (460) |
| 2000-01 | 648 | 44 | 14.7:1 | 50% (321) |
| 1990-91 | 629 | 38 | 16.6:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (813 to 764); teachers down 1% (61 to 60.5).
About Kennedy Elementary School
Kennedy Elementary School operates as a mid-sized elementary school in Winder, Georgia. It had 764 students in 2024-25, spanning pre-K through 5. Elementary schools in Georgia average about 605 students, which makes this school 26% bigger than average.
Kennedy Elementary School is run by Barrow County, whose 17 schools enroll 15,313 students.
At Kennedy Elementary School, White students make up the biggest share, 38%. Other groups make up 32% Hispanic, 17% Black, 8% multiracial, and 4% Asian. County-wide, 67% of Barrow County residents are White. A diversity index of 71% means there is a 71% chance two randomly chosen students at Kennedy Elementary School are from different groups.
The school's 60.5 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 12.6:1. Elementary schools in Georgia have an average ratio of 13.3:1. At Kennedy Elementary School, 68% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25.
On the allk12 Grade, Kennedy Elementary School lands at C-, ahead of 24% of Georgia public elementary schools.
The model predicts 42.0% for a school in Georgia with Kennedy Elementary School's free or reduced-price lunch share. Kennedy Elementary School posts 33.5%.
The county, Barrow County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $80,653 a year, 21% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting Kennedy Elementary School, Barrow County has 17 public schools.
Of the public schools around it, Kennedy Elementary School is closest to Westside Middle School, about 0.2 miles away. Kennedy Elementary School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts Kennedy Elementary School at 5th of 9.
Locale: Suburb: Small. In NCES terms, the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population under 100,000.
In 2020-21, Kennedy Elementary School enrolled 894 students. By 2024-25, that number had fallen to 764.
Parents, students, and staff can share information on pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback here. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Barrow County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
89,886
Census ACS
Median income
$80,653
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
21%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
8%
Below federal line
Schools in county
17
15,313 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Barrow County
- Apalachee High SchoolHigh · 1,949 students
- Winder-Barrow High SchoolHigh · 1,869 students
- Haymon-Morris Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Russell Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Barrow Arts and Sciences AcademyHigh · 967 students
- Holsenbeck Elementary SchoolElementary · 813 students
Other schools in Winder
- Apalachee High SchoolHigh · 1,949 students
- Winder-Barrow High SchoolHigh · 1,869 students
- Haymon-Morris Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Russell Middle SchoolMiddle · 973 students
- Barrow Arts and Sciences AcademyHigh · 967 students
- Holsenbeck Elementary SchoolElementary · 813 students
Other Kennedy Elementary schools
30 other US public schools in 17 states are named Kennedy Elementary. Kennedy Elementary School is the largest of the 31.
- Kennedy ElementaryWILLMAR, MN · 672 students
- KENNEDY ELEMENTARYLAKEVILLE, MN · 638 students
- Kennedy ElementaryMadison, WI · 582 students
- Kennedy ElementaryStockton, CA · 511 students
- Kennedy Elementary SchoolHOUSTON, TX · 510 students
Nearby schools
- Westside Middle School0.2 mi · 793
- Winder Elementary School2.2 mi · 656
- Russell Middle School2.4 mi · 973
- Apalachee High School2.5 mi · 1,949
- Yargo Elementary School2.6 mi · 782
- Winder-Barrow High School2.6 mi · 1,869
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Elementary SchoolHow many students attend Kennedy Elementary School?
Kennedy Elementary School enrolls approximately 764 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does Kennedy Elementary School serve?
Kennedy Elementary School serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at Kennedy Elementary School?
Approximately 12.6:1 students per teacher at Kennedy Elementary School.
How diverse is Kennedy Elementary School?
Kennedy Elementary School reports a student body of 38% White, 32% Hispanic, 17% Black, 4% Asian, 8% Two or more.
Who oversees Kennedy Elementary School?
Kennedy Elementary School is overseen by Barrow County in Barrow County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.