JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL

JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is an intimate middle-grades school in CHEEKTOWAGA, New York, run under CHEEKTOWAGA-SLOAN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school hosts 299 students in grades 6 through 8. That puts it 44% smaller than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 531 students.

CHEEKTOWAGA-SLOAN UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT runs 4 schools in total, collectively educating 1,248 students. JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of those campuses.

Looking at the student body, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White. Other groups include 12% Black, 11% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 8% Asian. By comparison, Erie County as a whole is about 74% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 10.3:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Around 60% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is higher than Erie County's rate of about 51%.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 53.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 41.7%.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Erie County) shows that median household earnings sit near $72,839, roughly 38% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 9% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Erie County's 226 public schools (combined enrollment of about 122,519 students), JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

JOHN F KENNEDY SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 40.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 6%: 282 students in 2018 compared to 299 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 82% to 59% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.