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John F. Kennedy H.S.

Paterson · Passaic County · High school
Grades 9–12
Last reported enrollment in 2010-11 — no longer in the data since.
Page updated · data years vary by section

At a glance

What changed?

This page does not have enough comparable recent data to summarize more than one measure. Start with enrollment evidence →

Enrollment, by grade

In its last year on record, 2010-11, it enrolled 2,058 students across grades 9–12. Enrollment was roughly steady since 1998-99 (2,089). It peaked at 2,810 in 2004-05. Its biggest cohort is grade 9.

students 07501,5002,2503,000Other12111091998200320082013201820232025

Students enrolled in each grade each fall, stacked to the total — so the top edge is total enrollment. Bands run from the lowest grade (light) to the highest (dark); a band that appears or disappears is a grade the school added or dropped. “Other” is students with no grade level (mostly special education), so the bands always sum to total. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

What the school looks like

The largest group in both 1998-99 and 2010-11 was Hispanic students — 59% then, 59% now.

% of students 050100race categories: 5 → 759%29%7%1998200320082013201820232025
WhiteBlackHispanicAsianNative Am.

Each group’s share of enrollment over time, or its head count — toggle above. New Jersey expanded race and ethnicity reporting from five to seven categories in 2006-07 (dashed line), so “two or more races” appears only after; Asian here includes Pacific Islander. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

How much the mix changed

Between 2006-07 and 2010-11 the makeup of this school shifted noticeably.

That’s the second-largest shift among the district’s three high schools — larger than 77% of Passaic County high schools. The biggest moves, in percentage points:
Black −7.5·Hispanic +6.3·Pacific Isl. +0.8

The index is half the sum of every group’s change in share, on a 0–100 scale (how it works). It is computed from the same counts as the makeup chart above — source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment. Compare any two years in the explorer →

Free or reduced-price lunch

In 2010-11, 74.9% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.

% certified 05010086.1%75.5%74.9%1998200320082010
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Share of students certified for free or reduced-price meals, through a household application or an automatic match. The lighter lines show the district overall and the district high schools, for comparison. Some districts serve free meals to every student under the Community Eligibility Provision. Those districts often stop collecting household income forms, so their reported share can run below the number of low-income students they enroll. Source: NJDOE Fall Enrollment.

Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →