ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Set in JAMESTOWN, New York, ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary-level community, run under JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It enrolls 377 students across grades pre-K through 4.

ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 9 schools operated by JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, a district that enrolls 4,370 students overall.

On demographics, ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that 73% of the student body identifies as White. Beyond that, the school records 16% Hispanic, 8% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, The school currently runs with 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.3:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 68% of students at ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is above Chautauqua County's rate of about 57%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 50.0%, the actual is 47.9%, a residual of -2.1 points.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) records that median household income runs about $58,351, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Chautauqua County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), of which ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one.

PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 4th of 9; the average score across the group is 36.0%.

The school occupies a town-based site.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 14%: 440 students in 2018 compared to 377 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share rose from 10% to 16%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 10.3:1 in 2025.

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