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Enrollment
882
Elementary
DISTRICT 605 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 360888004715
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
101 LAKE AVE, DEER PARK, NY 11729 · (631) 274-4310 · Suffolk County
GRADES 03–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL882 STUDENTS
C+
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Scored higher than 38% 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.
- 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 York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
82 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
420 students
DISTRICT 42% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 3 | 278 | 32% |
| Grade 4 | 294 | 33% |
| Grade 5 | 302 | 34% |
| Ungraded | 8 | 1% |
Student demographics
76%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 76% · 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 DEER PARK 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
52.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +11.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 52 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 11 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 52.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 38.0% | 47.0% |
% 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
46.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-11.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 57% 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 INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's state test result (46.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL this school | 882 | 47.6% | 46.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UPPER WEST NEW YORK | 1,002 | 56.3% | 94.9% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE NEW YORK | 967 | 58.8% | 93.3% |
| PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY BROOKLYN | 918 | 61.1% | 60.3% |
| SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 740 | 56.2% | 61.4% |
| CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL ELMONT | 764 | 59.6% | 54.1% |
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 INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 46.3% | #1,320 of 2,335 | #87 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,146 of 2,342 ▲ 270 | #79 of 169 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #1,262 of 2,343 ▲ 128 | #78 of 169 ▲ 10 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 882 | #88 of 2,585 | #5 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.7:1 | #695 of 2,338 | #58 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 75.6% | #34 of 2,388 | #3 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 47.6% | #1,480 of 2,534 | #46 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.0% | #1,718 of 1,757 | #132 of 137 |
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
882
+74 (+9%) vs 2020
+18% since 1990-91, when it was 750
Student : Teacher
10.7:1
was 11.1:1
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 | 882 | 82.3 | 10.7:1 | 48% (420) |
| 2023-24 | 839 | 80.2 | 10.5:1 | 49% (414) |
| 2022-23 | 830 | 79.9 | 10.4:1 | 44% (363) |
| 2020-21 | 808 | 73 | 11.1:1 | 45% (362) |
| 2017-18 | 891 | 75 | 11.9:1 | 46% (409) |
| 2015-16 | 884 | 69 | 12.8:1 | 47% (414) |
| 2010-11 | 1,003 | 86 | 11.7:1 | 33% (331) |
| 2000-01 | 1,064 | 77 | 13.8:1 | 20% (211) |
| 1990-91 | 750 | 51 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL.
About JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL
As a large elementary school, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves students in DEER PARK, New York. It teaches 882 students in grades 3 through 5. Elementary schools in New York have about 443 students on average; enrollment here is 99% higher.
The 5 schools of DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, including JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, enroll 4,054 students.
The largest racial or ethnic group at JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is Hispanic, with 33% of students. The next largest groups are 21% Asian, 21% White, 21% Black, and 3% multiracial. The school's Hispanic share is 11 points above the 23% share among Suffolk County residents. The diversity index for JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is 76%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
Staffing at JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes to 82.3 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.7:1. By comparison, the average for elementary schools in New York is 12.8:1. JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL counts 48% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The gap from the 39% average for public schools in Suffolk County is 9 points.
Among New York public elementary schools, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL outscored 38%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
After adjusting for student poverty, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL lands between the top and bottom 10% of New York schools. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 46.3%; the prediction is 57.5%.
In Suffolk County, where the school is located, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOL, about 0.4 miles away. The five-mile area around JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL ranks 4th of 7 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 46.3% against a local average of 50.7%.
Its NCES locale code is Suburb: Large: the school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
In 2020-21, JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolled 808 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 882.
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Suffolk County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,530,146
Census ACS
Median income
$130,686
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
40%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
343
222,439 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,326 students
- ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 913 students
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
- MAY MOORE PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
Other schools in DEER PARK
- DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,326 students
- ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 913 students
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 468 students
- MAY MOORE PRIMARY SCHOOLElementary · 465 students
Nearby schools
- DEER PARK HIGH SCHOOL0.4 mi · 1,326
- MAY MOORE PRIMARY SCHOOL0.8 mi · 465
- JOHN QUINCY ADAMS PRIMARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 468
- ROBERT FROST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 913
- PAUMANOK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.4 mi · 602
- WOODS ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.5 mi · 355
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOLHow many students attend JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 882 students in grades 03-05.
What age range does JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL serves students from grade 03 through grade 05.
How many teachers does JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL have?
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL employs 82 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.7:1.
What is the student diversity at JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL are roughly 21% White, 33% Hispanic, 21% Black, 21% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL in?
JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is part of DEER PARK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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