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Enrollment
725
Elementary
DISTRICT 472 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362346003273
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
40 OLIVIA ST, PORT CHESTER, NY 10573 · (914) 934-7990 · Westchester County
GRADES KG–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL725 STUDENTS
C-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 19% of New York public elementary schools
- C-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats 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 York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 15.0:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
71%
513 students
DISTRICT 64% · STATE 58%
Community
1
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 | 106 | 15% |
| Grade 1 | 119 | 16% |
| Grade 2 | 114 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 127 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 125 | 17% |
| Grade 5 | 134 | 18% |
This year's kindergarten class (106) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (134).
Student demographics
12%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 25% · STATE 72% · 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
Based on grade levels within PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
34.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.0pp since 2023
Math
37.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 34 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 37 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 8 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 34.0% | 37.0% |
| 2023-24 | 26.0% | 48.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. 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
34.5%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.0%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-14.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 35% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 49% 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%.
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 (34.5% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL this school | 725 | 70.8% | 34.5% |
| ROBERT C DODSON SCHOOL YONKERS | 720 | 75.6% | 42.0% |
| ANDREW T MORROW SCHOOL ISLANDIA | 821 | 72.5% | 32.2% |
| ENRICO FERMI SCHOOL FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS YONKERS | 857 | 77.5% | 32.4% |
| SUSAN E WILEY SCHOOL COPIAGUE | 611 | 67.8% | 38.0% |
| PINE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BRENTWOOD | 544 | 64.5% | N/A |
Matched among New York 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 York | In Westchester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 34.5% | #1,857 of 2,335 | #106 of 120 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 37.0% | #1,948 of 2,342 ▼ 536 | #111 of 127 ▼ 23 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 34.0% | #2,029 of 2,343 ▼ 54 | #116 of 127 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 725 | #239 of 2,585 | #8 of 146 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 15.6:1 | #2,117 of 2,338 | #116 of 141 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 12.1% | #2,259 of 2,388 | #141 of 141 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 70.8% | #970 of 2,534 | #19 of 137 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -15.8% | #822 of 1,757 | #30 of 100 |
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
725
-35 (-5%) vs 2020
+65% since 1990-91, when it was 440
Student : Teacher
15.6:1
was 14.9:1
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 | 725 | 46.5 | 15.6:1 | 71% (513) |
| 2023-24 | 734 | 46.6 | 15.8:1 | 89% (655) |
| 2022-23 | 725 | 44 | 16.5:1 | 81% (585) |
| 2020-21 | 760 | 51 | 14.9:1 | 83% (632) |
| 2017-18 | 861 | 57 | 15.1:1 | 82% (710) |
| 2015-16 | 910 | 52 | 17.5:1 | 80% (730) |
| 2010-11 | 771 | 51 | 15.1:1 | 75% (582) |
| 2000-01 | 475 | 29 | 16.4:1 | 66% (315) |
| 1990-91 | 440 | 29 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
About JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a high-enrollment elementary school found in PORT CHESTER, New York. There are 725 students enrolled, covering kindergarten through 5. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT includes 6 schools. Together they enroll 4,392 students.
Of every 100 students at JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, about 94 are Hispanic. After that, the student body is 3% Black and 2% White. Census figures show Westchester County is about 27% Hispanic. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 12, compared with 70 nationally.
There are 46.5 full-time-equivalent teachers at the school, a ratio of 15.6:1. Compared with the 12.8:1 average for elementary schools in New York, this school's ratio is higher. On the income side, 71% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Westchester County is 38%.
Among New York public elementary schools, JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL outscored 19%, which works out to a C- on the allk12 Grade.
On BeatsExpectations, JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is 14.5 points below its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
The school is in Westchester County, where median household income comes to about $118,976, 53% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 6% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Westchester County counts 255 public schools with about 140,968 students.
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's nearest public school is PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL (about 0.8 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL places 7th of 7 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the Suburb: Large locale category, used for schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
The 2020-21-to-2024-25 change in enrollment was a 5% decline, from 760 to 725.
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Westchester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
999,677
Census ACS
Median income
$118,976
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
53%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
6%
Below federal line
Schools in county
255
140,968 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 956 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
Other schools in PORT CHESTER
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,549 students
- PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 956 students
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 432 students
- KING STREET SCHOOLElementary · 374 students
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOLElementary · 356 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 largest of the 15.
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLBREWSTER, NY · 592 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLEAST ISLIP, NY · 416 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolPENITAS, TX · 676 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolSpring Valley, IL · 632 students
- John F Kennedy Elementary SchoolSchiller Park, IL · 603 students
Nearby schools
- PORT CHESTER MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 956
- New Lebanon School0.9 mi · 375
- THOMAS A EDISON SCHOOL0.9 mi · 356
- PARK AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 432
- PORT CHESTER SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,549
- Western Middle School1.5 mi · 563
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOLHow many students attend JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 725 students in grades KG-05.
What age range does JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
Approximately 15.6:1 students per teacher at JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL.
How diverse is JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 94% Hispanic, 3% Black, 1% 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 PORT CHESTER-RYE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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