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JOHN F KENNEDY H S
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JOHN F KENNEDY H S is one of the moderately sized secondary schools in SAN ANTONIO, Texas, operated by EDGEWOOD ISD, with 998 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Texas's public schools average about 796 students each, so JOHN F KENNEDY H S sits 25% above that benchmark.
EDGEWOOD ISD comprises 29 schools with combined enrollment of 9,461 students; JOHN F KENNEDY H S is among them.
On the student-mix side, JOHN F KENNEDY H S logs that 97% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority. By comparison, Bexar County as a whole is about 60% Hispanic, so the school skews noticeably more Hispanic than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, On paper, JOHN F KENNEDY H S has 63 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 15.7:1. The state averages about 15.1:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. About 92% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Bexar County runs at roughly 63%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), JOHN F KENNEDY H S tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 33.5% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 26.3%.
In the area at large, census data for Bexar County shows median household earnings sit near $72,341, about 32% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 11% of residents live below the federal poverty line. JOHN F KENNEDY H S is one of 638 public schools in Bexar County (combined enrollment of about 368,487 students).
LEARN4LIFE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JOHN F KENNEDY H S ranks 4th on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 25.8%.
The campus sits in a metropolitan setting.
Over the past 7-year window. JOHN F KENNEDY H S's enrollment has contracted 17% since 2018, when it stood at 1,198 (now 998). The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 15.7:1 today.
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