Summary:
In zip code 78119, there is one middle school, Kenedy Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 in the rural community of Kenedy, Texas, as part of the Kenedy Independent School District (Isd).
Kenedy Middle School is a small school with 149 students and a favorable student-teacher ratio of 13.9 to 1. The school has a perfect 0.0% dropout rate, which is better than the district average. However, the school faces significant academic challenges, consistently ranking in the bottom 25% of Texas middle schools with a 1-star rating. A very high percentage of students (83.89%) are eligible for free or reduced lunch, indicating high economic need, yet the school's per-student spending of $10,655 is slightly below the state average.
Academically, the school struggles most in Mathematics, with proficiency rates far below state averages—for example, only 13.73% of 7th graders were proficient in math compared to the state's 29.41%. Reading is a relative strength, but still lags behind state averages by 10-15 percentage points. There is a positive trend in 8th-grade math, which improved from 30% to 38.78% proficiency year-over-year. The most critical weaknesses are in 8th-grade Science (14.58% proficient vs. 46.25% statewide) and Social Studies (10.2% proficient vs. 29.64% statewide), suggesting these subjects need significant instructional improvement.
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