West Side High School
Public · Grades 9–12 · 541 students
John F. Kennedy School
311 S Tenth St, Newark, NJ 07103
Grades
9–12
High
Students
143
Enrolled 2024–25
Students per teacher
6.5 : 1
Full-time teachers
District
Newark Public School District
Essex County
Not graded
Special-education schools are built around students with disabilities, and their results can't be fairly compared with regular schools, so we don't grade them. How we grade
About John F. Kennedy School
John F. Kennedy School is a special education high school in Newark, New Jersey, serving grades 9–12. It is part of Newark Public School District. The school is located in a large city in Essex County.
In the 2024–25 school year, 143 students were enrolled, with about 6.5 students for every full-time teacher. That ratio is smaller than the typical New Jersey high school (11.7 students per teacher).
Grades & enrollment
Students per grade, 2024–25Grades 9–12
Location & nearby schools
School details
- Type
- Special Education School · What this means
- Level
- High
- Grades offered
- 9–12
- Enrollment (2024–25)
- 143 students
- Students per teacher
- 6.5 to 1
- Charter school
- No
- Magnet school
- No
- Locale
- City — Large
- School district
- Newark Public School District
- County
- Essex County
- NCES school ID
- 341134002296
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School data comes from the U.S. Department of Education: the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDGE school locations (2024–25) and Private School Survey (2023–24), the Civil Rights Data Collection (2023–24), and EDFacts (test results 2021–22; graduation and chronic absenteeism 2022–23), plus other public sources. Please contact the school to confirm enrollment, programs, and other details. How we source data.