John F. Kennedy Elementary School

Located in Lake Charles, Louisiana, John F. Kennedy Elementary School is a public school.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School is one school in a 56-school district, Calcasieu Parish, which enrolls 27,851 students.

The school reports a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.9:1. The average for combined schools in Louisiana, 52.1:1, is higher.

In the wider Calcasieu Parish area, the median household earns about $67,564 a year, about 25% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 13%. John F. Kennedy Elementary School shares Calcasieu Parish with 60 other public schools.

T. H. Watkins Elementary School, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8.

For locale, NCES codes John F. Kennedy Elementary School as City: Small.

John F. Kennedy Elementary School reported 173 students in 2017-18 and 63 in 2022-23. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades. Meanwhile, the Black share shrank from 95% to 83% of enrollment. The school's ratio dropped from 13.6:1 to 9.9:1 between 2017-18 and 2022-23.

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