At a glance
These measures follow the same rule on every school page, not a ranking of this school’s biggest changes. Each row names its evidence dates; trend rows do not describe every year in between.
Fall enrollment was 330 students in 2024-25 and 314 students in 2025-26 — 16 fewer students.
See enrollment evidence →The chronic-absence rate was 12.4% in 2021-22 and 12.1% in 2024-25 — 0.3 percentage points lower.
See attendance evidence →These are descriptive measures from statewide NJDOE datasets, not a quality rating or an explanation of cause. Proficiency, attendance, and graduation figures use All Students; subgroup patterns may differ.
In 2025-26 it enrolled 314 students across grades PK–1. That is 27 more than in 2020-21 (287) — the school has grown. It peaked at 355 in 2023-24. Its biggest cohort is grade 1.
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.
The largest group in both 2020-21 and 2025-26 was Hispanic students — 70% then, 75% now.
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.
Between 2021-22 and 2025-26 the makeup of this school barely moved.
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 →
In 2025-26, 73.6% of students were certified for free or reduced-price lunch.
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 elementary 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.
In 2024-25, 12.1% of students were chronically absent — missing at least 10% of school days — about the same as in 2021-22.
† New Jersey says these years are not comparable with the ones beside them
The requirement to report status in meeting annual ESSA targets for 2020-2021 was waived. As a result, NJDOE will not report state averages and whether state averages were met for 2020-2021. Additionally, because the number of days students spent in in-person and remote learning environments during the school year differed, the NJDOE recommends caution in comparing 2020-2021 attendance data between schools and districts and to prior or future school years.NJDOE 2020-21 workbook notes sheet.
Chronic absenteeism — the share of students who missed 10% or more of the days they were enrolled (roughly 18 days across a full school year). The lighter lines show the district overall and New Jersey, for comparison. Source: NJ School Performance Reports, 2015-16 through 2024-25.
2021-22 – 2024-25 · the ESSA record
New Jersey’s ESSA calculation workbooks carry a row for Kennedy Elementary School, but no summative rating in any of them. What the workbooks did publish about it is below.
The workbook rows here, 2021-22 to 2024-25, carry no rating at all.
| School year | Percentile in group | Summative score | NJDOE’s group | Identification |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | Not ranked this year | — | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2023-24 | Not ranked this year | — | Elementary | Not an identification year |
| 2022-23 | Not ranked this year | — | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
| 2021-22 | Not ranked this year | — | Elementary | No comprehensive or targeted status published for this school |
Inside 2024-25 · what produced the most recent rating
New Jersey did not publish a summative score for this school for 2024-25. Its row in the calculation workbook is marked N/A - Not an Identification Year, and the score, the percentile and every indicator weight are blank. The indicator results the workbook did publish are below; none of them was scored or ranked.
| Indicator | Result | Indicator score | Weight | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ELA proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state ELA test | Not published | — | — | — |
| Math proficiencystudents who met or exceeded expectations on the state math test | Not published | — | — | — |
| ELA growththe school’s median student growth percentile in ELA | Not published | — | — | — |
| Math growththe school’s median student growth percentile in math | Not published | — | — | — |
| Progress toward English proficiencyNJDOE’s published Progress Toward ELP rate, for English learners | 57.9% | 81.77 | — | — |
| Students not chronically absentstudents who were not chronically absent — 100 minus the chronic-absenteeism rate, so a higher number is better | 87.9% | 45.68 | — | — |
Four-year graduation rate, Five-year graduation rate, Six-year graduation rate, High school persistence are not part of the calculation for a school NJDOE groups as Elementary.
NJDOE’s Targeted Summary published no student-group flag for this school for 2026-27.
These are policy-defined values: which indicators count, and how much each counts, is set by New Jersey’s ESSA plan, not by any measure of school quality. The weights are specific to this school — an indicator that drops out shifts weight onto the rest, so the same indicator is worth different points at different schools. The workbooks measure 2024-25 and were published on April 2, 2026; 2024-25 was not a year New Jersey identified schools for comprehensive or targeted support, so these files carry no CSI or ATSI status. These weights are 2024-25’s: the indicator set and the weighting have both moved across the eight editions above, and for some school types they moved in this one. Row 2024_25_Accountability_Workbook_File_Comprehensive_Support_and_Improvement.xlsx#Summative!2284:AU of the workbook, and the method in NJDOE’s accountability technical guide.
Profile built from New Jersey Department of Education Fall Enrollment data, 1998-99 through 2025-26. How this data works →
