The John F. Kennedy Elementary School is a bilingual, bicultural, German-American public school situated in the district of Steglitz-Zehlendorf in the southwestern part of Berlin. The elementary school is among the largest in Berlin with five sections of each grade level, entrance class through grade 6. Parents send their children to the John F. Kennedy Elementary School because of the appeal of a bilingual, bicultural education in a multicultural school community. German and American students are taught together in the same classroom with the goal of developing respect, tolerance, and understanding for each other and for the partner culture.