DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL

DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is a middle-of-the-pack elementary school in DUNKIRK, New York, operated by DUNKIRK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. The school enrolls 575 students in grades 3 through 6. That puts it 30% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

DUNKIRK CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 5 schools with combined enrollment of 1,900 students; DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is among them.

For racial and ethnic makeup, DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL reports that 62% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 32% White, 3% multiracial, 3% Black. By comparison, Chautauqua County as a whole is about 10% Hispanic, so the school skews meaningfully more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 66 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 8.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Chautauqua County (around 57%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.8%; this one delivers 29.8%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Chautauqua County put the typical household earns roughly $58,351 per year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

DUNKIRK SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL comes 5th of 5 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 56.1%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at DUNKIRK INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL has increased 22%, going from 471 students in 2018 to 575 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment increased from 51% to 62% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 10.5:1 in 2018 to 8.7:1 today.

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