# JOHN F KENNEDY EL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `483025012403`
- **School name**: JOHN F KENNEDY EL
- **Location**: MERCEDES, TX 78570
- **Address**: 801 HIDALGO ST
- **District**: MERCEDES ISD (LEAID `4830250`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Primary
- **Coordinates**: 26.15357, -97.91804
- **Phone**: (956)514-2300

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 399
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 28
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 14.2:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 95.0%

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2022
- **All Subjects % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 61.1% proficient — 489 tested
- **All Subjects % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 37.4% proficient, 13.3% advanced — 489 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 63.3% proficient — 215 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 79.7% proficient — 64 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 58.7% proficient — 75 tested
- **Mathematics % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 53.9% proficient — 76 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 38.6% proficient, 13.0% advanced — 215 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 46.9% proficient, 9.4% advanced — 64 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 44.0% proficient, 22.7% advanced — 75 tested
- **Mathematics % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 26.3% proficient, 6.6% advanced — 76 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 65.4% proficient — 211 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 81.0% proficient — 63 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 60.3% proficient — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 57.3% proficient — 75 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)**: 41.7% proficient, 15.6% advanced — 211 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 65.1% proficient, 28.6% advanced — 63 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 4): 39.7% proficient, 11.0% advanced — 73 tested
- **Reading/ELA % Meets (TX STAAR)** (grade 3): 24.0% proficient, 9.3% advanced — 75 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)**: 39.7% proficient — 63 tested
- **Science % Approaches (TX STAAR)** (grade 5): 39.7% proficient — 63 tested

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 6.1% (27 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 6.0% (25 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 1
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.2%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 98.2%
- **Black/African American**: 0.0%
- **Asian**: 0.4%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 0.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 94.4%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2020)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 15.2% — 63 students
- **English Learners**: 43.2% — 179 students

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Speech/Language Impairment**: 15 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 7 students
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 6 students
- **Autism**: 5 students
- **Intellectual Disability**: 5 students
- **Emotional Disturbance**: 1 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Gifted & Talented

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2018-19)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $10,555
- **Federal share**: $1,356
- **State + local share**: $9,199
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 551
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $17,499,547
- **Federal share**: 32.1%
- **State share**: 54.9%
- **Local share**: 13.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $8,081,711

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $46,635
- **Poverty rate**: 22.7%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 19.8%
- **Unemployment**: 3.5%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,028
- **Foreign-born residents**: 18.1%
- **Single-parent households**: 16.1%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 10.8 miles (DONNA RESERVOIR AND CANAL SYSTEM)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 0
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 2
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.32 miles (CERMENIO JOE S TIRE SERVICE)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CITY OF MERCEDES
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 4
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-12-30

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 12.1134 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 17.2 miles

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