JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL

JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL, a middle-of-the-pack middle school in UTICA, New York, run under UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, hosts 687 students, covering grades 7 through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 531 students each, so JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL sits 29% bigger than that benchmark.

Within UTICA CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 13 schools and 9,075 students, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

Demographically, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that 31% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 22% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% Asian, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Oneida County as a whole is about 80% White, so the school skews meaningfully less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 57 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.1:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.3:1 average. An estimated 78% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is above Oneida County's rate of about 47%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.1%, the actual is 52.6%, a residual of +6.4 points.

In the surrounding community, census data for Oneida County shows the typical household earns roughly $70,154 per year, about 28% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 11%. In all, Oneida County runs 72 public schools (combined enrollment of about 32,265 students), of which JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL is one.

Nearest neighbor: GENERAL HERKIMER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, around 1.1 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 42.2%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JOHN F KENNEDY MIDDLE SCHOOL has changed only slightly, going from 680 students in 2018 to 687 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 44% to 31%.

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