John F Kennedy High School

John F Kennedy High School is a senior high of substantial scale in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, part of Cedar Rapids Comm School District, works with 1,648 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Iowa's public schools average about 468 students each, so John F Kennedy High School sits 252% larger than that benchmark.

Cedar Rapids Comm School District runs 35 schools in total, collectively educating 15,494 students. John F Kennedy High School is one of those campuses.

In terms of who attends, John F Kennedy High School reports that White students make up the majority at 71%. The remainder breaks down as 10% Black, 8% multiracial, 8% Hispanic, 3% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 84%.

On the resource side, On paper, John F Kennedy High School has 93 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.8:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 36% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

With demographic context factored in, John F Kennedy High School performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.0%, the actual is 69.3%, a residual of -4.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Linn County shows the typical household earns roughly $77,649 per year, roughly 35% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 6%. In all, Linn County runs 83 public schools (combined enrollment of about 36,480 students), of which John F Kennedy High School is one.

Nearest neighbor: Pierce Elementary School, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), John F Kennedy High School ranks 4th on composite proficiency, above the local average of 65.1%.

The campus sits in an inner-city setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 8%: 1,795 students in 2018 compared to 1,648 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share ticked down from 78% to 71%. Class-load math has tightened: from 19.3:1 in 2018 to 17.8:1 in 2025.

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