- 11254 Gothic Ave.
- Granada Hills, CA 91344
- (818) 271-2900
Magnet | Grades 9-12 | Los Angeles Unified School District
About John F. Kennedy High School
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John F. Kennedy High School is located in Granada Hills, CA and is one of 199 high schools in Los Angeles Unified School District. It is a magnet school that serves 3184 students in grades 9-12.
Magnet schools are public schools that offer a specialized curriculum or educational philosophy, often with a specific focus or theme. Magnet schools promote student diversity because they are open to students outside the normal school district boundaries and often attract high caliber students through competitive programs.
John F. Kennedy High School did not make AYP in 2009. Under No Child Left Behind, a school makes Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) if it achieves the minimum levels of improvement determined by the state of California in terms of student performance and other accountability measures. See John F. Kennedy High School's test results to learn more about school performance.
A school's Academic Performance Index (API) is a scale that ranges from 200 to 1000 and is calculated from the school's performance in the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. The state has set 800 as the API target for all schools to meet.
John F. Kennedy High School had an API growth score of 688 in 2009. California uses the Academic Performance Index (API) to measure annual school performance and year-to-year improvement. John F. Kennedy High School's 2009 base score was 665 and the school did meet its 2009 school-wide growth target.
In 2008, John F. Kennedy High School had 24 students for every full-time equivalent teacher. The California average is 21 students per full-time equivalent teacher. Learn more about John F. Kennedy High School's students and teachers.
John F. Kennedy High School Student Diversity
- Students by Ethnicity (2008)
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Hispanic
73 %
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White
11 %
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Black
5 %
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Asian
4 %
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Filipino
4 %
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Multiple or No Response
< 1 %
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American Indian/Alaskan Native
< 1 %
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Pacific Islander
< 1 %
- Students by Gender (2008)
- Male 53%
- Female 47%
John F. Kennedy High School Reviews
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i attend john f. kennedy high school Im in 9th grade but for the time i have been at kennedy had a great time the teachers an administrators are great and and the negative thing people say about this school are not true, but overall its a great school
Mar 4, 2009
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Student
I am a past graduate student from kennedy high school. I now attend harvard law and im was not a nerd in high school i hung around the bad crowd and still made it cause my teachers cared. Despite the rumors, kennedy is a good school, i was there for all 4 years. Alot of people say that its ghetto and looks like a jail but its nothing like that its a nice school, the staff is very good at what they and they will push your student to stive in school to become something in life.
Dec 5, 2008
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I’ve always had a time management issue; this resulted in many days of coming to school about 5 minutes late. The schools solution to this is to place the student in detention for an hour. During this time, you sit, quietly, with no instruction, missing out on your scheduled class, in a room with about 25 other students.
If the school is interested in helping the student, it would make more sense to find out why each student is there and offer guidance to assist with that problem, whether it’s punctuality, drug abuse or fighting and whether it’s one-on-one or group counseling.
This is a difficult age and I feel, no, I know that a few words of wisdom, in a positive, caring tone, could make a huge difference.