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Enrollment
431
Elementary
DISTRICT 354 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·OGDENSBURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 362166003069
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL
801-809 PARK ST, OGDENSBURG, NY 13669 · (315) 393-4264 · St. Lawrence County
GRADES PK–06ELEMENTARY33-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL431 STUDENTS
C
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 33% 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
9.4:1
46 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 9.5:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
48%
209 students
DISTRICT 49% · 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 | 38 | 9% |
| Kindergarten | 77 | 18% |
| Grade 1 | 51 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 13% |
| Grade 4 | 59 | 14% |
| Grade 5 | 46 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 59 | 14% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (77) is 31% larger than its 6th grade class (59).
Student demographics
9%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 6% · 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 SCHOOL→OGDENSBURG FREE ACADEMY
Based on grade levels within OGDENSBURG CITY 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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
50.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +9.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 50 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 50.0% |
| 2023-24 | 31.0% | 41.0% |
% 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
43.9%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
57.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.2pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% 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 SCHOOL
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL's state test result (43.9% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL this school | 431 | 48.5% | 43.9% |
| MILLARD HAWK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL CENTRAL SQUARE | 446 | 47.8% | 40.3% |
| MILLARD FILLMORE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL MORAVIA | 408 | 49.8% | 35.3% |
| UNADILLA VALLEY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL NEW BERLIN | 434 | 50.7% | 30.0% |
| SINCLAIRVILLE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SINCLAIRVILLE | 413 | 48.2% | 44.8% |
| TICONDEROGA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL TICONDEROGA | 396 | 48.5% | 47.1% |
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 SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In St. Lawrence County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.9% | #1,438 of 2,335 | #7 of 14 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,456 of 2,342 ▲ 190 | #7 of 14 ▲ 3 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,345 of 2,343 ▲ 380 | #4 of 14 ▲ 4 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 431 | #1,193 of 2,585 | #6 of 14 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 9.4:1 | #262 of 2,338 | #1 of 12 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 9.4% | #2,315 of 2,388 | #8 of 12 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 48.5% | #1,457 of 2,534 | #5 of 14 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -33.4% | #219 of 1,757 | #1 of 12 |
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
431
-58 (-12%) vs 2020
+1% since 1990-91, when it was 428
Student : Teacher
9.4:1
was 12.9:1
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 | 431 | 45.9 | 9.4:1 | 48% (209) |
| 2023-24 | 462 | 48.5 | 9.5:1 | 47% (216) |
| 2022-23 | 462 | 44.3 | 10.4:1 | 55% (253) |
| 2020-21 | 489 | 38 | 12.9:1 | 53% (258) |
| 2017-18 | 647 | 52 | 12.4:1 | 57% (370) |
| 2015-16 | 727 | 51 | 14.3:1 | 56% (405) |
| 2010-11 | 366 | 29 | 12.6:1 | 80% (294) |
| 2000-01 | 397 | 28 | 14.2:1 | 54% (216) |
| 1990-91 | 428 | 26 | 16.5:1 | 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
At 801-809 PARK ST in OGDENSBURG, New York, JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL operates as a mid-sized elementary school. The school runs pre-K through 6 and enrolls 431 students.
OGDENSBURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT is made up of 3 schools with 1,354 students in all.
The share of students at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL who are White is 95%. Other groups make up 3% multiracial. St. Lawrence County residents are about 92% White, a similar share. Measured by the diversity index, the student body scores 9%.
The student-to-teacher ratio is 9.4:1. The school has 45.9 full-time-equivalent teachers. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. Federal data show 48% of students (209) are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. That is in line with the 45% average for public schools in St. Lawrence County.
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL earns a C on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 33% of New York public elementary schools.
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL scores 43.9% on state tests, averaged across results. The predicted figure, based on its student poverty level, is 57.2%.
The school's county is St. Lawrence County. According to Census Bureau estimates, the median household earns about $62,850 a year, roughly 25% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL shares St. Lawrence County with 39 other public schools.
OGDENSBURG FREE ACADEMY is about 0.7 miles away, making it the nearest public school. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is one of several public schools in the area, with 3 others within five miles. Local comparison: JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL ranks 7th of 7 nearby schools, at 43.9% versus a 62.1% average.
The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Remote: in a town far from an urbanized area.
Federal enrollment counts fell from 489 (2020-21) to 431 (2024-25). In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 12.9:1; by 2024-25 it was 9.4:1.
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St. Lawrence County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
107,226
Census ACS
Median income
$62,850
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
40
13,653 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in OGDENSBURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- OGDENSBURG FREE ACADEMYHigh · 646 students
- MADILL SCHOOLElementary · 277 students
Other schools in OGDENSBURG
- OGDENSBURG FREE ACADEMYHigh · 646 students
- MADILL SCHOOLElementary · 277 students
- SAINT LAWRENCE PSYCHIATRIC CENTER CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICESHigh · 20 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 5th largest of the 10.
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLGREAT NECK, NY · 427 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
- OGDENSBURG FREE ACADEMY0.7 mi · 646
- MADILL SCHOOL1.6 mi · 277
- SAINT LAWRENCE PSYCHIATRIC CENTER CHILDREN & YOUTH SERVICES2.7 mi · 20
- HEUVELTON CENTRAL SCHOOL6.0 mi · 510
- LISBON CENTRAL SCHOOL7.7 mi · 540
- MORRISTOWN CENTRAL SCHOOL11.4 mi · 307
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLHow large is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 431 students in grades PK-06.
What age range does JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL serve?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL serves students from grade PK through grade 06.
How many teachers does JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL have?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL employs 46 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.4:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
At JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 95% White, 1% Hispanic, 1% Black, 1% Asian, 3% Two or more.
Is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL public or private?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by OGDENSBURG CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.