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How John F Kennedy High School compares
69% vs. 65% district avg
4 points above Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District
69% vs. 47% New York avg
23 points above state average
1,043
Enrollment
11.2:1
Student:Teacher
69%
Proficiency Rate
86%
Graduation Rate
13%
Free/Reduced Lunch

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About This School

John F Kennedy High School is a high school located in Bellmore, New York. The school serves 1,043 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.2:1.

According to EDFacts assessment data, 69% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 86% graduation rate.

13% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

John F Kennedy High School is part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District in New York.

How This School Compares

John F Kennedy High School has 1,043 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District (1,040 students). Its 69% proficiency rate is 4 percentage points above the district average of 65%. Compared to the New York state average of 47%, the school performs 23 points higher. With a 11.2:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.

Frequently Asked Questions

John F Kennedy High School has 1,043 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 11.2:1.

According to EDFacts data, 69% of students at John F Kennedy High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.

John F Kennedy High School has a 86% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.

John F Kennedy High School is part of the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District in Bellmore, New York. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.

All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.

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School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.

For this entity, the underlying data on this page comes from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. The breakdown above is the federal record; the paragraphs below add the per-entity context that makes the headline numbers usable for a real decision rather than just a data lookup.

The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.