Kennedy High School

As an expansive high school in BLOOMINGTON, Minnesota, Kennedy High School serves 1,578 students from grades 9 through 12, one of the schools within Bloomington Public Schools. Enrollment runs roughly 325% bigger than the state mean of about 371.

Bloomington Public Schools comprises 22 schools with combined enrollment of 10,442 students; Kennedy High School is among them.

On the student-mix side, Kennedy High School logs that 40% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 23% White, 23% Black, 7% Asian, 7% multiracial. That is visibly more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 8%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Kennedy High School has 89 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 16.3:1 average. Roughly 61% of students at Kennedy High School qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Hennepin County runs at roughly 43%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Kennedy High School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 32.1%; this one delivers 24.9%.

Across the wider county, census data for Hennepin County shows median household earnings sit near $97,653, roughly 54% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 5%. Kennedy High School is one of 496 public schools in Hennepin County (combined enrollment of about 177,509 students).

The closest other public school is Beacon ALP, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kennedy High School ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 25.4%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 3%: 1,525 students in 2018 compared to 1,578 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 36% to 23%.

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.