J B Kennedy Elem School

Set in Burbank, Illinois, J B Kennedy Elem School is a small elementary campus, one of the schools within Burbank SD 111. It hosts 295 students across grades K through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 381.

Across the 8 schools in Burbank SD 111 (3,257 students total), J B Kennedy Elem School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

On demographics, J B Kennedy Elem School reports that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 16% White, 4% Black, 3% multiracial, 3% Asian. That is considerably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 27%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.2:1 students per teacher. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. Around 66% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), J B Kennedy Elem School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 33.1%, the actual is 41.6%, a residual of +8.5 points.

Zooming out to the county, Cook County reports that median household income runs about $83,498, roughly 43% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 10% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Cook County runs 1406 public schools (combined enrollment of about 697,934 students), of which J B Kennedy Elem School is one.

Reavis High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around J B Kennedy Elem School. On composite proficiency, J B Kennedy Elem School comes 3rd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.1%.

The campus sits in a bedroom-community setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 19%: 364 students in 2018 compared to 295 in 2025. The White share of enrollment decreased from 31% to 16% over that span.

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