JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a large primary school in DEER PARK, New York, part of DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school instructs 882 students in grades 3 through 5. That puts it 99% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 4,054 students; JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (33%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 21% Asian, 21% White, 21% Black, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 23% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, The school lists 82 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. About 48% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Suffolk County's rate of about 39%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 57.5%; this one delivers 46.3%.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Suffolk County) records that the typical household earns roughly $130,686 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 4%. Across Suffolk County's 343 public schools (combined enrollment of about 222,439 students), JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 50.7%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's enrollment has remained close to its prior level since 2018, when it stood at 891 (now 882). White enrollment moved from 38% to 21% across the same window. Class-load math has pulled in: from 11.9:1 in 2018 to 10.7:1 in 2025.

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