CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 150 PARDEE AVE, in JAMESTOWN, New York, CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a compact elementary school that instructs 283 students (grades pre-K through 4), overseen by JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 36% below typical.

JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,370 students; CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

In terms of who attends, CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows that the largest single group is White, at 63% of enrollment. The remainder looks like 25% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 2% Black. By comparison, Chautauqua County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.9:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 76% of students are eligible 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%.

With demographic context factored in, CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is in the bottom 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model predicts schools with this FRL share to land around 47.2%; CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL posts 26.8%, -20.4 points below that line.

Across the wider county, census data for Chautauqua County shows the typical household earns roughly $58,351 per year, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Chautauqua County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL, around 1.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL at 7th of 9; the average score across the group is 37.7%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 4%: 295 students in 2018 compared to 283 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 73% to 63% over that span. Class-load math has fell: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.9:1 in 2025.

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