Public school / Primary
John F Kennedy El
Penitas, Texas
- NCES ID
- 482613002935
- District
- La Joya ISD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
John F Kennedy El is a public primary school in Penitas, Texas, run by La Joya ISD. It enrols 683 students — the 20354th largest of 9,692 public schools in Texas.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
683
Teachers
40.0
Students per teacher
17.1
Free or reduced-price lunch
90.2%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within La Joya ISD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1La Joya H S2,775 students
- 2La Joya Palmview H S2,155 students
- 3Juarez-Lincoln H S2,062 students
- 4Ann Richards Middle729 students
- 5Juan De Dios Salinas Middle704 students
- 6Memorial Middle700 students
- 7John F Kennedy El683 students
- 8Cesar Chavez Middle666 students
- Enrollment+31.3%
- Teachers+14.3%
- Students per teacher+17.1%
- Free or reduced-price lunch+27.4%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory