Enrollment
393
Middle
DISTRICT 759 · STATE 462
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ROCKFORD SD 205·NCES 173451003394
Kennedy Middle School
520 N Pierpont Ave, Rockford, IL 61101 · (815) 654-4880 · Winnebago County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE12-CITYTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL393 STUDENTS
F
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 1% of Illinois public middle schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 Illinois public middle schools
Student : Teacher
13.1:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 16.8:1 · STATE 13.0:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
90%
355 students
DISTRICT 71% · STATE 56%
Community
0
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 | 140 | 36% |
| Grade 7 | 128 | 33% |
| Grade 8 | 125 | 32% |
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 69% · 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
IAR + ISA 2024-25 . % Proficient (Levels 4-5)English Language Arts
10.6%
IL avg 51.0% . +2.5pp since 2023
Math
1.7%
IL avg 37.9% . +1.4pp since 2023
What this means: On the IAR + ISA, Illinois's statewide test, about 11 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 2 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Illinois schools, those numbers are about 51 and 38. Reading and writing scores are up about 3 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
IAR + ISA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.6% | 1.7% |
| 2023-24 | 8.1% | 0.3% |
% Proficient (Levels 4-5), all students and all tested grades.
Source: IAR + ISA. 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
6.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
19.4%
based on IL schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 6% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 19% typical for Illinois 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 Illinois'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 Middle School
Kennedy Middle School's state test result (6.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kennedy Middle School this school | 393 | 90.3% | 6.3% |
| Harold B Dawson Middle School West Peoria | 331 | 92.1% | 11.3% |
| Sterling Middle School Peoria | 374 | 88.5% | 9.4% |
| Von Steuben Middle School Peoria | 266 | 87.6% | 15.3% |
| Brooks Middle School Harvey | 455 | 89.0% | 20.7% |
| South View Upper Elementary School Danville | 664 | 93.1% | 12.2% |
Matched among Illinois 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 Kennedy Middle School ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In Illinois | In Winnebago County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 6.3% | #578 of 578 | #15 of 15 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 1.7% | #640 of 640 ▼ 1 | #15 of 15 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.6% | #639 of 640 ▼ 2 | #15 of 15 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 393 | #366 of 691 | #10 of 16 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.1:1 | #291 of 558 | #2 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.0% | #201 of 560 | #6 of 13 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 90.3% | #38 of 581 | #1 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -21.7% | #70 of 440 | #1 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
393
-88 (-18%) vs 2020
-33% since 2000-01, when it was 589
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 | 393 | 30.1 | 13.1:1 | 90% (355) |
| 2023-24 | 366 | 30.2 | 12.1:1 | 91% (333) |
| 2022-23 | 380 | 27.2 | 14.0:1 | 88% (333) |
| 2020-21 | 481 | N/A | N/A | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 502 | 33.2 | 15.1:1 | 79% (395) |
| 2015-16 | 547 | 39 | 14.0:1 | 79% (430) |
| 2010-11 | 698 | 42 | 16.6:1 | 90% (630) |
| 2000-01 | 589 | 40 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Kennedy Middle School.
Since 2017-18: students down 22% (502 to 393); teachers down 10% (33.2 to 30.1).
About Kennedy Middle School
Kennedy Middle School is a medium-sized middle school in Illinois, located in Rockford. The school counts 393 students across grades 6 through 8.
The district, Rockford SD 205, has 28,467 students enrolled across 44 schools.
Kennedy Middle School is 63% Black by enrollment. The remaining students are 17% Hispanic, 10% White, and 10% multiracial. Among people living in Winnebago County, the Black share is about 12%. Kennedy Middle School's diversity index is 56%, against a US figure of 70%.
The ratio of students to teachers is 13.1:1, with 30.1 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff. That matches the 13.0:1 average for middle schools in Illinois fairly closely. The percentage of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch is 90%. The 61% average for public schools in Winnebago County is 29 points lower.
The allk12 Grade for Kennedy Middle School is F. Compared with Illinois public middle schools, the school scored higher than 1% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for Kennedy Middle School is -13.1 points: 6.3% actual, 19.4% predicted.
In Winnebago County (population about 283,292), the median household income is $65,837, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 11% of people live in poverty. Kennedy Middle School is one of 94 public schools in the county.
McIntosh Elementary is located about 0.1 miles from Kennedy Middle School. The five-mile area around Kennedy Middle School holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 18.8% proficiency; Kennedy Middle School posts 6.3%.
Its NCES locale code is City: Mid-size: the school is inside a principal city with a population between 100,000 and 250,000.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 88 fewer students in 2024-25.
Community posts for Kennedy Middle School can cover enrollment questions, class placement, and PTA news. Alumni can share how the school prepared them.
Winnebago County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
283,292
Census ACS
Median income
$65,837
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
11%
Below federal line
Schools in county
94
44,103 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Rockford SD 205
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other schools in Rockford
- Guilford High SchoolHigh · 2,216 students
- Jefferson High SchoolHigh · 2,173 students
- Auburn High SchoolHigh · 1,957 students
- Rockford East High SchoolHigh · 1,719 students
- Rockford Envrnmntl Science AcademyMiddle · 1,108 students
- Eisenhower Middle SchoolMiddle · 963 students
Other Kennedy Middle schools
8 other US public schools in 9 states are named Kennedy Middle. Kennedy Middle School is the 7th largest of the 9.
- Kennedy MiddleCharlotte, NC · 990 students
- Kennedy MiddleGermantown, WI · 865 students
- Kennedy Middle SchoolSAINT CLAIR SHORES, MI · 710 students
- Kennedy Middle SchoolFERGUS FALLS, MN · 558 students
- Kennedy Middle SchoolPHARR, TX · 519 students
Nearby schools
- McIntosh Elementary0.1 mi · 398
- Auburn High School0.3 mi · 1,957
- Galapagos Rockford Charter School0.5 mi · 384
- Lewis Lemon Elementary1.0 mi · 378
- Ellis Elementary School1.3 mi · 457
- Summerdale Early Childhood Center2.0 mi · 460
Frequently asked questions
About Kennedy Middle SchoolHow large is Kennedy Middle School?
Kennedy Middle School enrolls approximately 393 students in grades 06-08.
Is Kennedy Middle School an elementary, middle, or high school?
Kennedy Middle School is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at Kennedy Middle School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at Kennedy Middle School is approximately 13.1:1 (30 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at Kennedy Middle School?
Student demographics at Kennedy Middle School are roughly 10% White, 17% Hispanic, 63% Black, 1% Asian, 10% Two or more.
What district is Kennedy Middle School in?
Kennedy Middle School is part of Rockford SD 205.
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