KENNEDY EL

KENNEDY EL is an elementary-level community of compact scale in HOUSTON, Texas, operated by HOUSTON ISD, educateing 430 students in grades pre-K through 5.

KENNEDY EL is one of 273 schools operated by HOUSTON ISD, a district that hosts 176,727 students overall.

On the student-mix side, KENNEDY EL lists that Hispanic students make up the majority at 78%. The remainder is composed of 20% Black. By comparison, Harris County as a whole is about 44% Hispanic, so the school skews visibly more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, KENNEDY EL records 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 14.3:1. The state averages around 15.1:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 97% of students at KENNEDY EL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Harris County runs at roughly 70%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, KENNEDY EL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 31.5%; this one delivers 43.4%.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Harris County) logs that median household income runs about $74,983, about 34% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Harris County's 1205 public schools (combined enrollment of about 886,911 students), KENNEDY EL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: WASHINGTON B T H S, around 0.7 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), KENNEDY EL ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, below the local average of 45.9%.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Five-year trend. KENNEDY EL's enrollment has declined 42% since 2018, when it stood at 739 (now 430). The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 14.3:1 today.

On this page, members of the KENNEDY EL community share and discuss science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.