KENNEDY MIDDLE

KENNEDY MIDDLE is a cozy intermediate school in PHARR, Texas, operated by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD. The school caters to 519 students in grades 6 through 8.

KENNEDY MIDDLE is one of 44 schools operated by PHARR-SAN JUAN-ALAMO ISD, a district that teaches 29,749 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, KENNEDY MIDDLE lists that 99% of students identify as Hispanic, making the school strongly Hispanic-majority.

Looking at school resources, The school reports having 49 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.5:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 14.4:1 average. Roughly 97% of students at KENNEDY MIDDLE qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Hidalgo County's rate of about 85%.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, KENNEDY MIDDLE ranks in the top 10% of Texas public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 31.6%; KENNEDY MIDDLE posts 46.0%, +14.3 points above that line.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Hidalgo County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $54,338 per year, roughly 21% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 23% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Hidalgo County runs 364 public schools (combined enrollment of about 212,859 students), of which KENNEDY MIDDLE is one.

Nearest neighbor: GERALDINE PALMER EL, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KENNEDY MIDDLE at 5th of 9; the average score across the group is 48.7%.

KENNEDY MIDDLE operates from a high-density location.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 22%: 669 students in 2018 compared to 519 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.5:1 today.

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