John F Kennedy Elem

As a reasonably sized primary school in Kansas City, Kansas, John F Kennedy Elem instructs 419 students from grades K through 5, part of Kansas City. Enrollment runs roughly 34% bigger than the state mean of about 313.

Kansas City comprises 43 schools with combined enrollment of 21,538 students; John F Kennedy Elem is among them.

Looking at the student body, John F Kennedy Elem lists that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. The remainder looks like 27% Black, 17% Asian, 15% White, 5% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Wyandotte County as a whole.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school employs 25 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.5:1. The state averages around 13.2:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 74% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, John F Kennedy Elem performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 27.0%, the actual is 23.6%, a residual of -3.4 points.

Across the wider county, Wyandotte County reports that the typical household earns roughly $63,631 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Wyandotte County's 62 public schools (combined enrollment of about 30,713 students), John F Kennedy Elem is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is D D Eisenhower Middle, roughly 0.3 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around John F Kennedy Elem. On composite proficiency, John F Kennedy Elem comes 2nd of 8 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 9.4%.

John F Kennedy Elem operates from a downtown location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 10%: 464 students in 2018 compared to 419 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment fell from 47% to 27% over that span. Class-load math has grew: from 14.6:1 in 2018 to 16.5:1 in 2025.

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