JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 62 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 33 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 7 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 7 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 40% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York 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 York's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL
JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL is a close-knit secondary school in NEW YORK, New York, operated by NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2. The school enrolls 316 students in grades 9 through 12. That puts it 53% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.
Across the 119 schools in NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT # 2 (54,599 students total), JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.
Demographically, JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Hispanic, at 69% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 20% Black, 6% White, 3% Asian. That is noticeably more Hispanic than the county at large, where the share is closer to 24%.
In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 86% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is above New York County's rate of about 70%.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 43.3%, the actual is 39.7%, a residual of -3.7 points.
In the broader community, New York County reports that the typical household earns roughly $103,931 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 13%. Across New York County's 358 public schools (combined enrollment of about 152,104 students), JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: REPERTORY COMPANY HIGH SCHOOL FOR THEATRE ARTS, around 0.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 61.6%.
Geographically, the school is in an urban area.
Five-year trend. JACQUELINE KENNEDY-ONASSIS HIGH SCHOOL's enrollment has fell 44% since 2018, when it stood at 564 (now 316). Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.3:1 in 2018 to 9.5:1 in 2025.
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