Public school / Middle
John F Kennedy Middle School
Port Jefferson Station, New York
- NCES ID
- 361578001364
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
John F Kennedy Middle School is a public middle school in Port Jefferson Station, New York, run by Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free School District. It enrols 822 students — the 13346th largest of 4,847 public schools in New York.
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
822
Teachers
66.0
Students per teacher
12.5
Free or reduced-price lunch
35.2%
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 Brookhaven-Comsewogue Union Free School District
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.
- 1Comsewogue High School1,153 students
- 2John F Kennedy Middle School822 students
- 3Terryville Road School454 students
- 4Clinton Avenue School441 students
- 5Boyle Road Elementary School334 students
- 6Norwood Avenue School321 students
- Enrollment+81.5%
- Teachers+78.4%
- Students per teacher+8.7%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−39.6%
Where this sits
Geographic context
District
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