Enrollment
348
Elementary
DISTRICT 310 · STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 363054004101
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL
175 BROOKVALE AVE, WEST BABYLON, NY 11704 · (631) 376-7801 · Suffolk County
GRADES PK–05ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL348 STUDENTS
B-
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest 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
11.8:1
30 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 11.2:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
12%
41 students
DISTRICT 26% · STATE 58%
Community
0
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 |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 72 | 21% |
| Grade 1 | 67 | 19% |
| Grade 2 | 35 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 54 | 16% |
| Grade 4 | 71 | 20% |
| Grade 5 | 49 | 14% |
This year's kindergarten class (72) is 47% larger than its 5th grade class (49).
Student demographics
53%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 64% · 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
Based on grade levels within WEST BABYLON 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
59.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +13.0pp since 2023
Math
61.0%
NY avg 57.4% . -5.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 59 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 61 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 13 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 5 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 59.0% | 61.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 66.0% |
% 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
57.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
70.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-13.5pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 57% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 71% 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 (57.2% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 4 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL this school | 348 | 11.8% | 57.2% |
| SCHOOL 9E-BOARDMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL OCEANSIDE | 333 | 10.8% | 66.6% |
| MEADOW POND ELEMENTARY SCHOOL SOUTH SALEM | 359 | 12.5% | 70.0% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL YORKTOWN HEIGHTS | 383 | 12.8% | 64.1% |
| BEDFORD VILLAGE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL BEDFORD | 333 | 9.3% | 74.6% |
| TIMBER POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL EAST ISLIP | 370 | 14.1% | N/A |
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 Suffolk County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 57.2% | #884 of 2,335 | #62 of 168 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #1,050 of 2,342 ▼ 330 | #70 of 169 ▼ 31 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 59.0% | #1,010 of 2,343 ▲ 49 | #63 of 169 ▲ 5 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 348 | #1,684 of 2,585 | #152 of 209 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 11.8:1 | #1,174 of 2,338 | #102 of 196 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 52.6% | #1,120 of 2,388 | #103 of 197 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 11.8% | #2,406 of 2,534 | #180 of 200 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -2.5% | #1,636 of 1,757 | #122 of 137 |
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
348
-11 (-3%) vs 2020
-24% since 1990-91, when it was 457
Student : Teacher
11.8:1
was 9.0:1
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 | 348 | 29.6 | 11.8:1 | 12% (41) |
| 2023-24 | 333 | 30.2 | 11.0:1 | 27% (89) |
| 2022-23 | 335 | 35.4 | 9.5:1 | 21% (72) |
| 2020-21 | 359 | 40 | 9.0:1 | 24% (86) |
| 2017-18 | 357 | 29 | 12.3:1 | 15% (55) |
| 2015-16 | 374 | 27 | 13.8:1 | 27% (100) |
| 2010-11 | 448 | 34 | 13.2:1 | 11% (51) |
| 2000-01 | 559 | 32 | 17.5:1 | 8% (44) |
| 1990-91 | 457 | 28 | 16.3:1 | 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
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is a low-enrollment elementary school in New York, located in WEST BABYLON. It is open to students in pre-K through 5 and enrolls 348 students. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is one school in a 7-school district, WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT, which enrolls 3,597 students.
At JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL, 65% of students are White. After that, the student body is 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 5% multiracial, and 3% Asian. Census estimates put Suffolk County at about 66% White, close to the school's figure. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL scores 53%.
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL has 29.6 full-time-equivalent teachers on staff and a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The school has 12% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The average for public schools in Suffolk County is 39%.
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL earns a B- on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 48% of New York public elementary schools.
Schools in New York with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to score about 70.7%. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL scores 57.2%.
Suffolk County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $130,686 a year, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 4%. JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL shares Suffolk County with 342 other public schools.
Measured in a straight line, SOUTH BAY SCHOOL is about 0.1 miles from JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL. Other public schools within five miles: at least 8. The school's 57.2% average proficiency ranks 5th among 9 nearby schools.
NCES lists the school's locale as Suburb: Large. That means it sits in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more.
Over the 4 years from 2020-21 to 2024-25, enrollment fell 3%. By 2024-25, the school had 11.8 students per teacher, compared with 9.0 in 2020-21.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL. Members of the school community can share what they know.
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 WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,228 students
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 students
Other schools in WEST BABYLON
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,228 students
- WEST BABYLON JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLMiddle · 817 students
- SANTAPOGUE SCHOOLElementary · 356 students
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOLElementary · 288 students
- TOOKER AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 282 students
- FOREST AVENUE SCHOOLElementary · 278 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 7th largest of the 10.
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLOGDENSBURG, NY · 431 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLGREAT NECK, NY · 427 students
- JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLKINGSTON, NY · 322 students
- John F KennedyHolbrook, MA · 685 students
- John F KennedyBrockton, MA · 539 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTH BAY SCHOOL0.1 mi · 288
- WEST BABYLON SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.8 mi · 1,228
- ALLEGHANY AVENUE SCHOOL1.0 mi · 319
- LINDENHURST SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL1.0 mi · 1,868
- LINDENHURST MIDDLE SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,260
- DANIEL STREET SCHOOL1.1 mi · 495
Frequently asked questions
About JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOLHow many students attend JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL enrolls approximately 348 students in grades PK-05.
Is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades PK-05.
How many teachers does JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL have?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL employs 30 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 11.8:1.
What is the student diversity at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL?
Student demographics at JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL are roughly 65% White, 20% Hispanic, 6% Black, 3% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL public or private?
JOHN F KENNEDY SCHOOL is a public K-12 school, overseen by WEST BABYLON UNION FREE SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.