Kennedy Elementary

Kennedy Elementary, a tight-knit K-5 school in Junction City, Wisconsin, one of the schools within Stevens Point Area Public School District, hosts 170 students, covering grades pre-K through 6. By comparison, Wisconsin's public schools average about 323 students each, so Kennedy Elementary sits 47% smaller than that benchmark.

Stevens Point Area Public School District runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 6,885 students. Kennedy Elementary is one of those campuses.

Demographically, Kennedy Elementary shows that nearly all students (88%) are White; the rest looks like 6% Hispanic, 3% Asian, 3% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Portage County as a whole.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 12 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 14.0:1. The state averages around 14.7:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Kennedy Elementary performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 56.0%, the actual is 50.9%, a residual of -5.1 points.

Zooming out to the county, Portage County reports that median household income runs about $76,070, roughly 34% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 5% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Kennedy Elementary is one of 31 public schools in Portage County (combined enrollment of about 9,217 students).

The closest other public school is THINK Academy-Together Helping INspire Kids, roughly 6.8 miles away. 5 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a ten-mile radius, suggesting a relatively low-density school footprint. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Kennedy Elementary ranks 5th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 55.8%.

The school occupies a rural site.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 26%: 230 students in 2018 compared to 170 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share declined from 10% to 6%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 15.5:1 in 2018 to 14.0:1 in 2025.

On allk12, the feed for Kennedy Elementary typically covers pickup logistics, teacher feedback, and after-school programs. Members of the school community can share what they know.