| Definition of Terms |
John F. Kennedy High School |
| School Level |
High school |
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| Grades Offered |
Grades 9 - 12 |
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| County |
Passaic County, NJ |
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| Total Students |
2795 students |
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| % Male / % Female |
52% /
48% |
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| Total Classroom Teachers |
272 teachers |
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| Students by Grade |
| Grade 9 - 848 students | | Grade 10 - 875 students | | Grade 11 - 513 students | | Grade 12 - 466 students | | Grade Not Listed - 93 students |
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| Teacher : Student Ratio |
1:10 |
1:13 |
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| Students by Ethnicity |
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| % American Indian |
1% |
n/a |
| % Asian |
4% |
7% |
| % Hispanic |
53% |
15% |
| % Black |
36% |
17% |
| % White |
7% |
61% |
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| Additional Student Information |
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| % Eligible for Free Lunch |
55% |
16% |
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| % Eligible for Reduced Lunch |
7% |
4% |
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| % Migrant Students Enrolled |
n/a |
n/a |
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| School District Name |
Paterson City School District |
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| Number of Schools Managed |
36 |
5 |
| Number of Students Managed |
25,308 students |
2,429 students |
| District Total Revenue |
$484,979,000 |
$39,780,000 |
| District Expenditure |
$476,181,000 |
$39,973,000 |
| District Revenue / Student |
$19,163 |
$16,377 |
| District Expenditure / Student |
$18,815 |
$16,457 |
| District Graduation Rates |
61% |
81% |
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- John F. Kennedy High School (or Kennedy High School) is a four-year public high school in Paterson, New Jersey, United States, that serves the western section of Paterson. Kennedy High School, which serves grades 9 through 12, is a part of the Paterson Public Schools.
- As of the 2005-06 school year, the school had an enrollment of 2,713 students and 266.0 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student-teacher ratio of 10.2.
- The school was the 314th-ranked public high school in New Jersey out of 316 schools statewide, in New Jersey Monthly magazine's September 2008 cover story on the state's Top Public High Schools. The school was ranked 306th in the magazine's September 2006 issue, which surveyed 316 schools across the state.
- Demographics and achievement
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Kennedy High School is 54% Hispanic of various Latin American nationalities, 34% Black, 7% White American, and 5% Asian. 35% of the school speaks Spanish in their homes, 3% speak Bengali, 2% speak Arabic, 2% speak Turkish, 0.2% speak Italian and 0.1% speak Albanian. There are also limited English proficient students or LEPs who compose 11% of the school. Limited English Proficient students cannot speak, read, or write in English. 50% of the students participate in the free or reduced price lunch program.The average class size is 22 students, excluding special education. The school's ratio of computers to students is 7 to 1 meanwhile the state average is 4 to 1.
- On the Language Arts section of the High School Proficiency Assessment (HSPA), 48% scored proficient and 51% scored partial. On the Math section of the test, 43% scored proficient and 50% scored partial. The average SAT score is 852 out of 1600. The Advanced Placement Program (AP) participation rate is 5%. The average attendance rate is 87%. As of the 2004-05 school year, Kennedy High School had a suspension rate of 27%. 59% of John F. Kennedy High School seniors graduated. 53% of the school graduated via the SRA process and 8% graduated through the LEP SRA process. Roughly 25% of the graduating seniors go on to four-year colleges and another 46% of the graduating seniors go on to two year colleges.
- The student to faculty ratio is 9 to 1. The faculty gets paid $46,500 a year while the state average is $52,563. The administrators get paid $105,000 as the state average is $102,755.
- Since the school is in a “special needs” or one of the Abbott Districts, it receives 85% of its budget from the state. The total cost per pupil in the school district is $14,280.
- Athletics
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The John F. Kennedy High School Knights compete in Division C of the Northern New Jersey Interscholastic League (NNJIL), an athletic conference consisting of public and private high schools located in Bergen County and Passaic County. The school has been classified as North I, Group IV by the New Jersey State Interscholastic Athletic Association (NJSIAA).
- The girls basketball team won the 2001 North I, Group IV state sectional championship with a 61-50 win over Bayonne High School in the tournament final.
- Notable alumni
- Eric Downing (born 1978), defensive tackle for the San Diego Chargers.
- Sources
- Paterson School District
- GreatSchools.net: John F. Kennedy High School
- Data for the Paterson Public Schools, National Center for Education Statistics
- Source: Wikipedia; it is used under the GNU Free Documentation License. You may redistribute it, verbatim or modified, providing that you comply with the terms of the GFDL.
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| About This Zip Code (07522) |
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| Population (Approximate) |
21,677 people |
8,215,963 people |
| % (age 25+) w/College Degree |
9% |
35% |
| Population Average Age |
28 years old
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36 years old |
| Average Household size |
3.4 persons
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2.6 persons |
| Median Household Income |
$31,728
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$55,509 |
| Avg. # of Rooms in Household |
4.6 rooms |
5.6 rooms |
| Median Age of Housing Structure |
57 years old |
47 years old |
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| % Owning / % Renting |
27% / 73% |
62% / 38% |
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