KENEDY MIDDLE

KENEDY MIDDLE is a middle school of minimally staffed scale in KENEDY, Texas, one of the schools within KENEDY ISD, teacheing 149 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 77% leaner than the state mean of about 643.

Within KENEDY ISD, which oversees 4 schools and 758 students, KENEDY MIDDLE is one campus in the system.

Looking at the student body, KENEDY MIDDLE lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Hispanic (89%). Other groups include 7% White. The wider county runs roughly 53% Hispanic, putting the school's mix visibly more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, On paper, KENEDY MIDDLE has 11 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.9:1. The state averages about 14.4:1, putting this campus right in line with peers. An estimated 84% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Karnes County runs at roughly 62%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KENEDY MIDDLE performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 37.3%, the actual is 31.3%, a residual of -6.0 points.

In the broader community, census data for Karnes County shows the typical household earns roughly $60,214 per year, 14% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 14%. Across Karnes County's 15 public schools (combined enrollment of about 2,456 students), KENEDY MIDDLE is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is KENEDY H S, roughly 0.0 miles away. 7 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), KENEDY MIDDLE ranks 4th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 32.4%.

The campus sits in a countryside setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at KENEDY MIDDLE has decreased 7%, going from 160 students in 2018 to 149 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 82% to 89% across the same window. Class-load math has widened: from 12.1:1 in 2018 to 13.9:1 in 2025.

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