JOHN F KENNEDY EL

JOHN F KENNEDY EL is a primary school of medium-sized scale in PENITAS, Texas, operated by LA JOYA ISD, enrolling 676 students in grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 519 students each, so JOHN F KENNEDY EL sits 30% bigger than that benchmark.

LA JOYA ISD comprises 36 schools with combined enrollment of 22,942 students; JOHN F KENNEDY EL is among them.

Demographically, JOHN F KENNEDY EL lists that 100% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Hidalgo County as a whole is about 92% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, The school lists 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.0:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 83% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.

With demographic context factored in, JOHN F KENNEDY EL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.6%, the actual is 45.0%, a residual of +7.4 points.

In the broader community, Hidalgo County reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, about 21% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. JOHN F KENNEDY EL is one of 364 public schools in Hidalgo County (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students).

Nearest neighbor: LORENZO DE ZAVALA MIDDLE, around 1.5 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around JOHN F KENNEDY EL. On composite proficiency, JOHN F KENNEDY EL comes 6th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 54.3%.

The school occupies a bedroom-community site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 17%: 816 students in 2018 compared to 676 in 2025.

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