High · Regular · Grades 9 to 12
John F. Kennedy High School, Paterson, NJ
Enrollment and teachers
- Students
- 1,846
- Teachers (FTE)
- 138.0
- Students per teacher
- 13.4
- Grades
- 9 to 12
This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.0. The New Jersey average across schools is 11.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.
School details
- Address
- 61-127 Preakness Avenue, Paterson, NJ 07502
- Phone
- (973)321-0500
- District
- Paterson Public School District
- County
- Passaic County
- Level
- High
- Type
- Regular
- Status
- Open
- Charter
- No
- Virtual
- No
- Locale
- Suburb: Large
- NCES school ID
- 341269003171
School meals
- Free lunch
- 1,089
- Reduced-price lunch
- 22
- Free or reduced-price lunch
- 1,11160.2% of enrollment.
- Community Eligibility Provision
- Yes (CEP school)
Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.
Related schools
Other high schools in Paterson Public School District
- Eastside High School 2,073 students
- International High School 650 students
- Paterson STEAM High School 379 students
- Rosa L. Parks School of Fine and Performing Arts 258 students
- Paterson P-TECH High School 193 students
- Students Transitioning and Achieving Real Success 112 students
- Newcomers High School 106 students
- Alternative High School 81 students
We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.