Enrollment
256
Elementary
DISTRICT 267 · STATE 405
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTH PLAINFIELD SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 341536003636
John F Kennedy Elementary School
2900 NORWOOD AVENUE, SOUTH PLAINFIELD, NJ 07080 · (908) 754-4620 · Middlesex County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL256 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 39% of New Jersey public elementary schools
- B-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- CBeats 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 New Jersey public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
27 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.5:1 · STATE 11.4:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
27%
69 students
DISTRICT 31% · STATE 41%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 45 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 49 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 59 | 23% |
| Grade 3 | 50 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 53 | 21% |
This year's kindergarten class (45) is 15% smaller than its 4th grade class (53).
Student demographics
70%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 73% · STATE 71% · 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
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
John F Kennedy Elementary School→Grant Elementary School→South Plainfield Middle School→South Plainfield High School
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NJSLA 2024-25 . % Meeting or Exceeding ExpectationsEnglish Language Arts
44.7%
NJ avg 53.1% . -0.3pp since 2023
Math
46.8%
NJ avg 41.6% . -1.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NJSLA, New Jersey's statewide test, about 45 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New Jersey schools, those numbers are about 53 and 42. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are down about 1 points.
NJSLA results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 44.7% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 45.0% | 48.1% |
% Meeting or Exceeding Expectations, all students and all tested grades.
Source: NJSLA. 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
51.4%
based on NJ schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-5.1pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 51% typical for New Jersey 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 New Jersey'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 John F Kennedy Elementary School
John F Kennedy Elementary School's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| John F Kennedy Elementary School this school | 256 | 27.0% | 46.3% |
| Jefferson Elementary School SUMMIT | 221 | 27.1% | 66.0% |
| Dennis B O'Brien Elementary School DOVER | 298 | 25.5% | 49.5% |
| Project Before at Selover School South Amboy | 233 | 31.3% | N/A |
| John A. Forrest Elementary School FAIR LAWN | 258 | 22.1% | 60.4% |
| Ryerson Elementary School WAYNE | 250 | 29.6% | 38.4% |
Matched among New Jersey elementary 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 John F Kennedy Elementary School ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New Jersey | In Middlesex County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #613 of 1,290 | #64 of 111 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #652 of 1,319 ▼ 71 | #66 of 111 ▼ 5 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 44.7% | #840 of 1,319 ▼ 47 | #69 of 111 ▼ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 256 | #1,263 of 1,562 | #112 of 130 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #217 of 1,390 | #24 of 120 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 69.6% | #164 of 1,392 | #40 of 121 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 27.0% | #908 of 1,481 | #88 of 128 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -6.2% | #572 of 798 | #74 of 84 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
256
-12 (-4%) vs 2020
-16% since 1990-91, when it was 303
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 12.2:1
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 | 256 | 27.2 | 9.4:1 | 27% (69) |
| 2023-24 | 259 | 25.2 | 10.3:1 | 24% (63) |
| 2022-23 | 287 | 25.1 | 11.5:1 | 17% (50) |
| 2020-21 | 268 | 22 | 12.2:1 | 7% (18) |
| 2017-18 | 273 | 24.6 | 11.1:1 | 19% (53) |
| 2015-16 | 242 | 23 | 10.5:1 | 17% (42) |
| 2010-11 | 276 | 20 | 13.8:1 | 13% (35) |
| 2000-01 | 384 | 26 | 14.8:1 | 8% (31) |
| 1990-91 | 303 | 18 | 16.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for John F Kennedy Elementary School.
Since 2017-18: students down 6% (273 to 256); teachers up 11% (24.6 to 27.2).
About John F Kennedy Elementary School
John F Kennedy Elementary School, a small elementary school, is located in SOUTH PLAINFIELD, New Jersey. It reported 256 students in kindergarten through 4 in 2024-25. Elementary schools in New Jersey average about 405 students, which makes this school 37% below average.
South Plainfield School District runs 9 schools with a combined 3,767 students. John F Kennedy Elementary School is one of them.
About 44% of students at John F Kennedy Elementary School are White, the largest single group. After that, the student body is 29% Hispanic, 16% Asian, 7% Black, and 4% multiracial. Among Middlesex County residents, the White share is about 41%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 70%.
John F Kennedy Elementary School reports a ratio of 9.4 students per teacher, from 27.2 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New Jersey, the average ratio is 11.4:1. Lunch program data show 27% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Compared with the 42% average for public schools in Middlesex County, the school's rate is lower.
John F Kennedy Elementary School earns a C+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 39% of New Jersey public elementary schools.
BeatsExpectations compares each school's average proficiency rate across its state test results with a prediction based on free or reduced-price lunch eligibility. For John F Kennedy Elementary School, the prediction is 51.4% and the result is 46.3%.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Middlesex County show that the median household earns about $111,549 a year, about 46% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 6% of residents are in poverty. Middlesex County has 214 public schools with about 129,255 students, including John F Kennedy Elementary School.
Riley Preschool Annex, about 0.6 miles away, is the closest public school. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 7 nearby schools with scores, including this one, John F Kennedy Elementary School is 4th on average proficiency.
John F Kennedy Elementary School has an NCES locale of Suburb: Large.
Since 2020-21, enrollment has fallen 4%, from 268 to 256. The school's ratio dropped from 12.2:1 to 9.4:1 between 2020-21 and 2024-25.
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Middlesex County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
871,290
Census ACS
Median income
$111,549
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
46%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
214
129,255 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in South Plainfield School District
- South Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,044 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- South Plainfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 553 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- John E. Riley Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other schools in SOUTH PLAINFIELD
- South Plainfield High SchoolHigh · 1,044 students
- Grant Elementary SchoolMiddle · 568 students
- South Plainfield Middle SchoolMiddle · 553 students
- Roosevelt Elementary SchoolElementary · 472 students
- John E. Riley Elementary SchoolElementary · 367 students
- Franklin Elementary SchoolElementary · 270 students
Other John F Kennedy Elementary schools
14 other US public schools in 7 states are named John F Kennedy Elementary. John F Kennedy Elementary School is the 15th largest of the 15.
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolN BERGEN, NJ · 576 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolWest Berlin, NJ · 357 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLPORT CHESTER, NY · 725 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolPENITAS, TX · 676 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolSpring Valley, IL · 632 students
Nearby schools
- Riley Preschool Annex0.6 mi · 145
- John E. Riley Elementary School0.6 mi · 367
- South Plainfield High School0.7 mi · 1,044
- Grant Elementary School0.8 mi · 568
- South Plainfield Middle School1.0 mi · 553
- Roosevelt Preschool Annex1.4 mi · 92
Frequently asked questions
About John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolHow large is John F Kennedy Elementary School?
John F Kennedy Elementary School enrolls approximately 256 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does John F Kennedy Elementary School serve?
John F Kennedy Elementary School serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
How many students per teacher at John F Kennedy Elementary School?
Approximately 9.4:1 students per teacher at John F Kennedy Elementary School.
What is the racial breakdown of students at John F Kennedy Elementary School?
At John F Kennedy Elementary School, the student body is approximately 44% White, 29% Hispanic, 7% Black, 16% Asian, 4% Two or more.
Is John F Kennedy Elementary School public or private?
John F Kennedy Elementary School is a public K-12 school, overseen by South Plainfield School District.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.