J F Kennedy High

J F Kennedy High is one of the cozy 9-12 campuss in Winston Salem, North Carolina, run under Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, with 332 students on its rolls from grades 6 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 761 students per school, that is 56% below typical.

Within Winston Salem / Forsyth County Schools, which oversees 79 schools and 51,745 students, J F Kennedy High is one campus in the system.

On demographics, J F Kennedy High logs that the most-represented group is Hispanic (50%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school reports 29% Black, 15% White, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Forsyth County as a whole is about 15% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, J F Kennedy High records 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.6:1, putting J F Kennedy High tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 99% of students at J F Kennedy High qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Forsyth County (around 88%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Forsyth County indicate the typical household earns roughly $67,165 per year, roughly 39% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. J F Kennedy High is one of 88 public schools in Forsyth County (combined enrollment of about 55,902 students).

Nearest neighbor: Carter High School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a high-density site. As a virtual school, attendance and instruction happen remotely rather than in person.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count stayed largely flat: 329 students in 2018 compared to 332 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment declined from 65% to 50% over that span. Class-load math has loosened: from 8.9:1 in 2018 to 14.1:1 in 2025.

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