High · New Jersey
John F. Kennedy High School
Free meals for allJohn F. Kennedy High School, a public high school in Paterson, New Jersey: grades 9–12, 1,846 students, 13.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Paterson Public School District.
Size and class size
Compared with high schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 1,846
- Teachers (FTE)
- 138.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.4
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in New Jersey
Median 12.1 · 435 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 57% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 90% of high schools in New Jersey
Median 817 · 444 schools compared
Larger than 91% of high schools in the US
Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared
State test results
No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.
What it offers
- Grades
- High · Grades 9–12
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Paterson Public School District.
Location
- Address
- 61-127 Preakness Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07502
- Phone
- (973)321-0500
- City or town
- Paterson
- County
- Passaic County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
International High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 650 | 12.5 |
| 9–12 | 106 | 17.7 | |
Paterson P-TECH High SchoolFree meals for all | 9–12 | 193 | 12.1 |
Alternative High SchoolAlternativeFree meals for all | 9–12 | 81 | 3.9 |
Passaic County Technical InstituteCareer and technical | 9–12 | 3,565 | 11.1 |
Passaic County Technical Institute STEM AcademyCareer and technical | 9–12 | 1,040 | 12.5 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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