Kennedy High School

This is a 3 ½ stars for me. I am not a total hater, but this is not an elite high-​school by any stretch of the imagination. My daughter is a Junior at this school and plays sports, so I have been here a lot. My daughter enjoys her teachers and appreciates the cooking and photography classes offered, but of course!
My daughter has not complained to me about feeling unsafe or having issues with other students. I feel safe with her there and have been ok with her education so far. I am less than enthused with the coaches offered for their volleyball program. I shall not go off on a rant here!

My son is at Kennedy in the special needs class (SDC) because he has Asperges Syndrome. High School was a terrifying thought to him last year, but his teachers and support staff have proven to be beyond amazing and for the first time ever his grades are A’s and B’s because he WANTS to go to class everyday and learn. That is amazing to me.

I graduated in 2008, I transferred to Kennedy from Washington high school and i loved it a lot more. The students were nice, and the teachers are willing to help however they can. I personally felt less stress because it was block schedule at Kennedy. Meaning you have four classes (an hour and ½ long) per semester a total of 8 classes a year verse only 6 classes for the year. That made the transition to college a lot easier because college classes are normally that long too. I also, wanted to mention I was a C average at Washington and at Kennedy i was A average. Yes, Kennedy is a small school but, because it was small i felt that the students would get along so much better unlike Washington; the school was huge but, the clicks were ridiculous. I felt bad for students who transferred to that school because it was not welcoming. I did join swim team to met new people and it felt like family. Our coach (Gus) was amazing too he also coaches the soccer team. The only thing i would say about this school is they need a better pool.

I have to agree with Ronni S.
Going to JFK all four years for high school was great. Sure we didn’t always have the best things, but this economy doesn’t allow that currently. Those four years were great. I went to other schools for summer school (my fault, not Kennedy’s) Kennedy had such a comfortable feel to it I always felt safe. American I felt trapped Washington I felt lost and Irvington, although the better feeling I felt there were more cliques when I asked students who went there.
Kennedy teachers that I had I felt genuinely cared. Ms. M was always there for my friends and I. I miss her.
My whole family has gone to Kennedy since it has opened and when I have kids I hope they go there and get to have the fun I had there. I wish I had taken more advantage of the resources they provided. I took classes at the ROP. I loved being within walking distance from.
JFK also has off campus lunch.
Ms. Sprague, my counselor was also always there for me and always understanding. If I weren’t for her I wouldn’t have graduated.
I worked in the office as a TA and I loved it. Kids complain about the office staff but they put up with a lot of nonsense that kids and their parents dish out.
As for Jill U’s review I never met a kid who came on Bart everyday from Oakland. We had to provide proof of residence every year. I was running late on turning it in and they kept asking over and over. It was of high priority.
Angela the football team works out in the back of the school. There’s still a huge field back there. And the weight room has plenty to do.
I was on the swim team, the pool was great and always kept up. We could have used a bit more support for the swim and still do.
I hear Kennedy is ghetto as well… but I hear from other kids what goes down at Washington and the other schools. My four years of attending JFK I barely ever saw bullying, if I did it never went unpunished. I saw fights but what school doesn’t have them? Fights usually cleared up in less than a minute. Kennedy has this kind of equal respect I felt. That may be a little cheesy or over the top but Kennedy was my school and I was proud to be a Titan! I still am one!
I love Kennedy high school and it means so much to me.
Go Titans! JFK c/​o 2011!!! 0ne, 0ne!

This is not a buisness… it is a school, but I will still review it
I am a senior at Kennedy, and I have to say that the school has it’s faults. But I would like to first address the allegation that people are not safe at my school; the two stabbings involved perpetrators who did not attend my school. Whenever there is a big drug bust or gang war at any other school, they seem to not be reported on the Argus, but the two minor infractions were sadly oversensationalized; the first involved a guy who was very nice, and ended up transferring to another highschool that Jill U. tried to transfer to many times. Also, I have never felt unsafe in the 4 years i’ve been going here. There are a bunch of kids at this school who are going to highly prestigious universities; many with full scholarships. Others are going to be able to go straight into good jobs because they’ve been taking ROP courses for the past 3 years. We have a 4×4 block schedule, so it is common for students at our school to graduate with more UC approved courses than students at MSJHS and IHS. And we get easy acess to awesome rop classes like sound design, forensics, and animation while other FUSD kids have to drive there!
Ghetto? Well duh, its public school in a low income area… what else do you expect? The school is riddled with small gardens planted by students. They even have some state funded academies going on, so thier are veggie gardens on the back left corner of the campus. Football is practiced in the back now, and the team has been doing great, so the MVROP building hasnt hindered our football team/​And its payed for by the property taxes, so basically, by calling this school Ghetto, a person is calling a whole community Ghetto.
JFKHS is filled witch passionate teachers, and hard working students.

I graduated in 2006 and I’m glad I got out of there. I spent every year there trying to transfer out. I would’ve taken Irvington, Washington, American over this place.
The cliques weren’t bad and everyone basically got along and not too many fights during lunch. What bothered me is how people from Oakland who got expelled would take BART to Fremont, and then take the bus to Kennedy and were enrolled as students there. That really made Kennedy look bad and feel bad. It was also the «last chance» school for all the schools in the district. If you were messing up at American or Irvington, Kennedy was your last chance before you were sent to ROBERTSON. What did we do to deserve this?
The only reason that this place has an extra star is because of the teachers who are loyal to that school. Coach Webb, Coach Mike, Madame DeScweinitz, Mr. Bega, and a few others. They are some of the most loved teachers there and have been since my sister went (c/​o ’97).

I graduated here in the year 2001 and glad to get out of there. The school itself was pretty GHETTO and the staff was CRAZY too! I had FUN during the SPIRIT WEEK, but that’s about it. There are about 5 high schools in fremont, and this had to be the shitty one. LOL! Anywho, when I attended there, the Fremont Unified School District wanted my school to shut down, when I was a Junior. Oh believe me, we did a lot of protestings fir couple of days, so that the FUSD couldn’t close it down. It did work and unitl now they still want to shut it down… when will the FUSD learn! That’s the only high school that have no bleachers on the footbal field. Recently, they added te Missin Valley R.O.P. on the football field. What does that tell you? Well, that’s all I have to say…