Kennedy Middle School

Kennedy Middle School is a cozy junior high in Eugene, Oregon, part of Eugene SD 4J. The school hosts 350 students in grades 6 through 8. Compared to the state average of about 494 students per school, that is 29% below typical.

Across the 36 schools in Eugene SD 4J (15,712 students total), Kennedy Middle School accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Kennedy Middle School logs that the largest single group is White, at 64% of enrollment. The remainder reads as 19% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Lane County as a whole is about 81% White, so the school skews visibly less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, The school currently runs with 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 16.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 19.3:1, putting Kennedy Middle School tighter than the state norm the norm. Around 64% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Lane County runs at roughly 76%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kennedy Middle School sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 37.6%; this one delivers 37.5%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Lane County shows median household earnings sit near $71,544, 34% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. Kennedy Middle School is one of 117 public schools in Lane County (combined enrollment of about 42,240 students).

Nearest neighbor: Chinese Language Immersion School, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Kennedy Middle School comes 4th of 7 in the immediate cluster, behind the nearby-schools average of 40.4%.

The school occupies a city-core site.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Kennedy Middle School has changed only slightly, going from 342 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Class-load math has fell: from 21.7:1 in 2018 to 16.1:1 in 2025.

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