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Enrollment
427
Elementary
DISTRICT 535 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361251001019
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL
1-A GRASSFIELD RD, GREAT NECK, NY 11024 · (516) 441-4200 · Nassau County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL427 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of New York public elementary schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A-Beats 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
10.9:1
39 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 13.3:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
30%
126 students
DISTRICT 24% · 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Pre-K | 31 | 7% |
| Kindergarten | 55 | 13% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 69 | 16% |
| Grade 3 | 66 | 15% |
| Grade 4 | 81 | 19% |
| Grade 5 | 70 | 16% |
| Ungraded | 4 | 1% |
This year's kindergarten class (55) is 21% smaller than its 5th grade class (70).
Student demographics
57%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 60% · 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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
72.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.0pp since 2023
Math
81.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -8.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 72 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 81 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 8 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 72.0% | 81.0% |
| 2023-24 | 68.0% | 89.0% |
% 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
74.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
64.1%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+10.6pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 75% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 64% 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 SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL's state test result (74.8% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL this school | 427 | 29.5% | 74.8% |
| JAMES H BOYD ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HUNTINGTON | 421 | 26.4% | 69.0% |
| HEWLETT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HEWLETT | 369 | 26.3% | 64.8% |
| RUSHMORE AVENUE SCHOOL CARLE PLACE | 407 | 23.8% | 70.8% |
| BRETTON WOODS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL HAUPPAUGE | 509 | 24.0% | 70.1% |
| JACKSON AVENUE SCHOOL MINEOLA | 436 | 30.0% | 51.2% |
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 SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Nassau County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 74.8% | #268 of 2,335 | #56 of 172 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 81.0% | #335 of 2,342 ▼ 210 | #61 of 172 ▼ 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 72.0% | #464 of 2,343 ▼ 160 | #67 of 172 ▼ 16 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 427 | #1,223 of 2,585 | #105 of 193 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.9:1 | #776 of 2,338 | #68 of 184 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 57.3% | #853 of 2,388 | #87 of 184 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 29.5% | #1,982 of 2,534 | #70 of 193 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -5.9% | #1,420 of 1,757 | #80 of 116 |
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
427
-14 (-3%) vs 2020
-15% since 1990-91, when it was 503
Student : Teacher
10.9:1
was 8.8:1
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 | 427 | 39.3 | 10.9:1 | 30% (126) |
| 2023-24 | 446 | 41.2 | 10.8:1 | 24% (108) |
| 2022-23 | 454 | 43 | 10.6:1 | 25% (112) |
| 2020-21 | 441 | 50 | 8.8:1 | 23% (101) |
| 2017-18 | 454 | 54.2 | 8.4:1 | 25% (115) |
| 2015-16 | 488 | 52 | 9.4:1 | 25% (122) |
| 2010-11 | 479 | 48 | 10.0:1 | 18% (87) |
| 2000-01 | 525 | 49 | 10.7:1 | 21% (112) |
| 1990-91 | 503 | 47 | 10.7:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL.
About JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL
The public elementary school JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is located in GREAT NECK, New York. Classes run from pre-K through 5, and the school has 427 students.
GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT oversees JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL and 9 other schools, with 6,798 students in total.
By race and ethnicity, JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is 60% White. The rest of enrollment is 22% Hispanic and 15% Asian. The White share in Nassau County as a whole is similar, at about 57%. The chance that two students picked at random at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL belong to different racial or ethnic groups, known as the diversity index, is 57%.
The count of teachers at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is 39.3 full-time equivalents, for a ratio of 10.9:1. Among elementary schools in New York, the typical ratio is 12.8:1. The school counts 126 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 30%. Across public schools in Nassau County, the average is about the same, 31%.
Measured against New York public elementary schools, JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL receives an A. The grade weighs proficiency most heavily, then how results compare with what the school's low-income share predicts, then the three-year change.
Based on student poverty, the model expects 64.1% at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL; the school's average proficiency rate on state tests is 74.8%.
Recent Census Bureau figures for Nassau County show that median household income is about $146,202, about 50% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is one of 315 public schools in Nassau County, which together enroll about 200,775 students.
The nearest public school is VILLAGE SCHOOL, at about 0.6 miles. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL comes in 8th of 8 nearby schools on average proficiency.
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).
Federal counts put enrollment at 441 in 2020-21 and 427 in 2024-25, a 3% decrease. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 8.8:1 in 2020-21 to 10.9:1 in 2024-25.
Conversations here can range across science fairs, picture day, and bus routes. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
Nassau County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,389,591
Census ACS
Median income
$146,202
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
50%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
315
200,775 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 728 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
Other schools in GREAT NECK
- GREAT NECK SOUTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,362 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,155 students
- GREAT NECK SOUTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 832 students
- LAKEVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 772 students
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 728 students
- E M BAKER SCHOOLElementary · 651 students
Other John F Kennedy schools
9 other US public schools in 3 states are named John F Kennedy. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 10.
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLOGDENSBURG, NY · 431 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLWEST BABYLON, NY · 348 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLKINGSTON, NY · 322 students
- John F KennedyHolbrook, MA · 685 students
- John F KennedyBrockton, MA · 539 students
Nearby schools
- VILLAGE SCHOOL0.6 mi · 48
- E M BAKER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 651
- GREAT NECK NORTH MIDDLE SCHOOL0.8 mi · 728
- GREAT NECK NORTH HIGH SCHOOL0.9 mi · 1,155
- SADDLE ROCK SCHOOL1.5 mi · 519
- MANHASSET SECONDARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 1,031
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 427 students in grades PK-05.
What age range does JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 05.
How many students per teacher at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
Approximately 10.9:1 students per teacher at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL.
How diverse is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL reports a student body of 60% White, 22% Hispanic, 1% Black, 15% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Who oversees JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is overseen by GREAT NECK UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT in Nassau County.
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