Kennedale Independent School District

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Kennedale Independent School District
Location
United States of America
District information
Type Public
MottoCommitted to Excellence
SuperintendentChad Gee [1]
Governing agency Texas Education Agency
NCES District ID 4825500 [2]
Students and staff
Students3,134 [3]
Teachers204.8 [3]
Staff394.4 [3]
Other information
Website http://www.kennedaleisd.net

Kennedale Independent School District is a public school district based in Kennedale, Texas (USA).

Contents

In addition to Kennedale, the district serves small portions of Arlington and Fort Worth.

In 2016-2017, the school district was rated "exemplary" by the Texas Education Agency. [4]

Motto

Kennedale ISD's motto is "Committed to Excellence" [5]

Schools

Kennedale ISD has five schools - four in Kennedale and one (R.F. Patterson Elementary) in Arlington.

Students

Academics

STAAR - Percent at Level II Satisfactory Standard or Above (Sum of All Grades Tested) [3]
SubjectKennedale ISDRegion 11State of Texas
Reading79%76%73%
Mathematics80%78%76%
Writing75%72%69%
Science83%81%79%
Soc. Studies83%80%77%
All Tests80%77%75%

Students in Kennedale typically perform close to local region and state-wide averages on standardized tests. In 2015-2016 State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness (STAAR) results, 80% of students in Kennedale ISD met Level II Satisfactory standards, compared with 77% in Region 11 and 75% in the state of Texas. [3] The average SAT score of the class of 2015 was 1413, and the average ACT score was 22.1. [3]

Demographics

In the 2015-2016 school year, the school district had a total of 3,134 students, ranging from pre-kindergarten through grade 12. The class of 2015 included 228 graduates; the annual drop-out rate across grades 9-12 was less than 1%. [3]

As of the 2015-2016 school year, the ethnic distribution of the school district was 48.7% White, 22.0% Hispanic, 20.7% African American, 4.0% Asian, 0.5% American Indian, 0.4% Pacific Islander, and 3.8% from two or more races. Economically disadvantaged students made up 39.9% of the student body. [3]

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References

  1. Kennedale ISD: Superintendent's Office
  2. "Search for Public School Districts – District Detail for Kennedale Isd". National Center for Education Statistics . Institute of Education Sciences . Retrieved January 16, 2017.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "2015-16 Texas Academic Performance Report, KENNEDALE ISD". Texas Education Agency . Retrieved January 5, 2017.
  4. "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-11-01. Retrieved 2018-10-31.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  5. "Kennedale ISD" . Retrieved 31 October 2018.