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If you had an hour of school board time for JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, what would you bring up?
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Enrollment
814
Middle
DISTRICT 575 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361578001364
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL
200 JAYNE BLVD, PORT JEFFERSON STA, NY 11776 · (631) 474-8160 · Suffolk County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL814 STUDENTS
C-
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Scored higher than 22% of New York public middle schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- DBeats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
79 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.8:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
32%
259 students
DISTRICT 34% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 250 | 31% |
| Grade 7 | 277 | 34% |
| Grade 8 | 284 | 35% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
Student demographics
59%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 59% · 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
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL→COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE 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
26.0%
NY avg 58.3% . -7.0pp since 2023
Math
46.8%
NY avg 57.4% . -11.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 26 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 47 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 down about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 26.0% | 46.8% |
| 2023-24 | 33.0% | 58.5% |
% 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
47.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
63.3%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-15.9pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 47% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 63% 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (47.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 814 | 31.8% | 47.4% |
| FOX LANE MIDDLE SCHOOL BEDFORD | 767 | 35.2% | 69.0% |
| GEORGE FISCHER MIDDLE SCHOOL CARMEL | 1,138 | 35.6% | 46.0% |
| SAGAMORE MIDDLE SCHOOL HOLTSVILLE | 893 | 37.7% | 58.5% |
| WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL WEST BABYLON | 817 | 25.0% | 59.4% |
| C J HOOKER MIDDLE SCHOOL GOSHEN | 646 | 28.8% | 53.5% |
Matched among New York middle 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 MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 47.4% | #479 of 766 | #44 of 66 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 46.8% | #558 of 768 ▼ 181 | #55 of 66 ▼ 12 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 26.0% | #722 of 768 ▼ 132 | #60 of 66 ▼ 18 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 814 | #152 of 796 | #25 of 66 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #329 of 683 | #34 of 66 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 58.7% | #208 of 688 | #26 of 66 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 31.8% | #599 of 773 | #39 of 66 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -3.8% | #455 of 524 | #52 of 59 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
814
+18 (+2%) vs 2020
+12% since 1990-91, when it was 730
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.9:1
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 | 814 | 79.4 | 10.3:1 | 32% (259) |
| 2023-24 | 840 | 80.3 | 10.5:1 | 29% (240) |
| 2022-23 | 822 | 66.8 | 12.3:1 | 35% (289) |
| 2020-21 | 796 | 67 | 11.9:1 | 28% (220) |
| 2017-18 | 846 | 59.3 | 14.3:1 | 31% (264) |
| 2015-16 | 884 | 60 | 14.7:1 | 28% (249) |
| 2010-11 | 843 | 63 | 13.4:1 | 21% (173) |
| 2000-01 | 819 | 56 | 14.6:1 | 10% (78) |
| 1990-91 | 730 | 51 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a high-enrollment middle school. Its address is in PORT JEFFERSON STA, New York. The school runs grades 6 through 8 and enrolls 814 students. Middle schools in New York average about 531 students, which makes this school 53% bigger than average.
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL belongs to BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district of 6 schools and 3,448 students.
The share of White students at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 50%, a majority. Smaller groups are 39% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Suffolk County is roughly 66% White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 59%.
Staffing at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL comes to 79.4 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 10.3:1. It is about the same as the 10.3:1 average for middle schools in New York. On the income side, 32% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL lands at C-, ahead of 22% of New York public middle schools.
On the allk12 BeatsExpectations measure, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is 15.9 points below the average proficiency rate across its state test results predicted for its free or reduced-price lunch share: 47.4% actual, 63.3% predicted. That is outside both the top and bottom 10% in New York.
The county, Suffolk County, is where the school is located. The median household earns about $130,686 a year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 4% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, Suffolk County has 343 public schools.
About 0.5 miles separate JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOL. The five-mile area around JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools average 62.1% on proficiency, and JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is below that at 47.4%.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 796 to 814, a small change. Students per teacher dropped from 11.9 in 2020-21 to 10.3 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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 BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 471 students
- CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 316 students
- BOYLE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Other schools in PORT JEFFERSON STA
- COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,160 students
- TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOLElementary · 471 students
- CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 381 students
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 316 students
- BOYLE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 306 students
Other John F Kennedy Middle schools
8 other US public schools in 3 states are named John F Kennedy Middle. JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 2nd largest of the 9.
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLBETHPAGE, NY · 759 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLUTICA, NY · 687 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLCHEEKTOWAGA, NY · 299 students
- John F Kennedy Middle SchoolPlainfield, IL · 912 students
- John F Kennedy MiddleWaltham, MA · 635 students
Nearby schools
- TERRYVILLE ROAD SCHOOL0.5 mi · 471
- COMSEWOGUE HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,160
- CLINTON AVENUE SCHOOL0.9 mi · 381
- NORWOOD AVENUE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 316
- ARROWHEAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 562
- BOYLE ROAD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.3 mi · 306
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 814 students in grades 06-08.
What age range does JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students from grade 06 through grade 08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is approximately 10.3:1 (79 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL?
At JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 50% White, 39% Hispanic, 4% Black, 3% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL public or private?
JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by BROOKHAVEN-COMSEWOGUE UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
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