# John F. Kennedy High

*Machine-readable school profile — served at https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/llm*

Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `060263000177`
- **School name**: John F. Kennedy High
- **Location**: La Palma, CA 90623
- **Address**: 8281 Walker St.
- **District**: Anaheim Union High (LEAID `0602630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: High
- **Grade range**: 9–12
- **Coordinates**: 33.84100, -118.03770
- **Phone**: (714)220-4101
- **Website**: https://www.kennedyhigh.org
- **Wikidata QID**: Q6232355 — Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_F._Kennedy_High_School_(La_Palma,_California)
- **Founded**: 1964

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 1,983
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 83
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 23.9:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 69.5%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2024
- **ELA (CA SBAC)**: 65.5% proficient — 476 tested

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 97.8% (cohort of 502)
- **2021**: 97.0% (cohort of 565)

## SAT/ACT participation (2020)
- **SAT/ACT takers**: 47

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 3.8% (84 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.2% (24 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.3%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 42.7%
- **Black/African American**: 32.9%
- **Asian**: 3.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 16.1%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.5%
- **Two or more races**: 4.3%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 62.7%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 12.4% — 252 students
- **English Learners**: 5.6% — 114 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 86 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 46 students
- **Autism**: 35 students
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 21 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 13 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 10 students
- **Hearing Impairment**: 3 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2023-24)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $17,222
- **Federal share**: $804
- **State + local share**: $16,418
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 2,024
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $20,099,282
- **Federal share**: 12.8%
- **State share**: 57.5%
- **Local share**: 29.7%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $10,722,328

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $117,036
- **Poverty rate**: 9.6%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 42.1%
- **Unemployment**: 4.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $2,510
- **Foreign-born residents**: 33.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 5.5%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 5.4 miles (MCCOLL)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 133
- **Nearest brownfield**: 2.89 miles (LOS ALAMITOS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF LA PALMA
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2019-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 10.5122 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 5.7 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **Los Coyotes Elementary** — 0.5 mi away, 70.05% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Oxford Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 83.25% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Margaret Landell Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 68.55% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Cerritos Elementary** — 1.7 mi away, 73.5% (this school: 65.5%)
- **Carver (Charles J.) Elementary** — 2.1 mi away, 69.8% (this school: 65.5%)

### graduation rate
- **Oxford Academy** — 1.2 mi away, 99% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Whitney (Gretchen) High** — 2.7 mi away, 99.4% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Sunny Hills High** — 5.6 mi away, 99.2% (this school: 97.8%)
- **Odyssey STEM Academy** — 6.5 mi away, 100% (this school: 97.8%)
- **La Serna High** — 8.2 mi away, 98.8% (this school: 97.8%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma
- **Performance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ca.whatschool.ai/en/ca/school/john-f-kennedy-high-la-palma/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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