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Enrollment
455
Middle
DISTRICT 416 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT·NCES 361563001356
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
159 BUFFALO ST, JAMESTOWN, NY 14701 · (716) 483-4413 · Chautauqua County
GRADES 05–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL455 STUDENTS
D
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Scored higher than 9% of New York public middle schools
- DTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- C-Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
53 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 8.6:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
399 students
DISTRICT 77% · STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 5 | 121 | 27% |
| Grade 6 | 118 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 112 | 25% |
| Grade 8 | 104 | 23% |
Student demographics
63%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 58% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL→JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL
Based on grade levels within JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
23.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +2.0pp since 2023
Math
23.5%
NY avg 57.4% . -2.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 23 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 24 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 2 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 23.0% | 23.5% |
| 2023-24 | 21.0% | 25.6% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
32.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-10.3pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 32% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (32.4% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 455 | 87.7% | 32.4% |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 419 | 79.5% | 42.6% |
| LACKAWANNA MIDDLE SCHOOL LACKAWANNA | 444 | 86.5% | 23.0% |
| PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL JAMESTOWN | 373 | 75.6% | 49.7% |
| ROBERT J KAISER MIDDLE SCHOOL MONTICELLO | 587 | 72.1% | 35.3% |
| SENECA INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL SALAMANCA | 404 | 78.5% | 32.9% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 32.4% | #697 of 766 | #6 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 23.5% | #740 of 768 ▼ 13 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 23.0% | #738 of 768 ▲ 6 | #6 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 455 | #389 of 796 | #1 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 8.5:1 | #69 of 683 | #3 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 62.8% | #151 of 688 | #1 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.7% | #165 of 773 | #1 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -11.5% | #285 of 524 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
455
-48 (-10%) vs 2020
-23% since 1990-91, when it was 592
Student : Teacher
8.5:1
was 10.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 455 | 53.3 | 8.5:1 | 88% (399) |
| 2023-24 | 467 | 52.8 | 8.8:1 | 90% (418) |
| 2022-23 | 469 | 52.9 | 8.9:1 | 86% (403) |
| 2020-21 | 503 | 49 | 10.3:1 | 80% (403) |
| 2017-18 | 514 | 47.9 | 10.7:1 | 73% (376) |
| 2015-16 | 498 | 43 | 11.6:1 | 76% (380) |
| 2010-11 | 526 | 50 | 10.5:1 | 74% (388) |
| 2000-01 | 580 | 53 | 10.9:1 | 70% (406) |
| 1990-91 | 592 | 43 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL
As a mid-sized middle school, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves students in JAMESTOWN, New York. There are 455 students enrolled, covering grades 5 through 8.
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of the 9 schools that make up JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (4,370 students in total).
The largest racial or ethnic group at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is White, with 48% of students. The remaining shares are 36% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, and 7% Black. Chautauqua County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school's share is lower. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 63%.
The student-to-teacher ratio at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is 8.5:1, based on 53.3 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, middle schools in New York average 10.3:1. Lunch program data show 88% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. By comparison, the figure for public schools in Chautauqua County is 57%.
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL holds a D allk12 Grade, placing it above 9% of New York public middle schools.
A school with GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL's lunch-eligibility share in New York is predicted to score 42.7%. GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL scores 32.4%, 10.3 points below that line.
Census data for Chautauqua County show the median household earns about $58,351 a year, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 12% of people live in poverty. Counting GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL, Chautauqua County has 51 public schools.
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is about 0.4 miles from CARLYLE C RING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, its nearest public school. Within five miles are at least 8 other public schools. Its average proficiency rate of 32.4% is below the 35.8% average for nearby schools.
The school is in a town some distance from an urbanized area, according to its NCES locale (Town: Distant).
The school shrank from 503 students in 2020-21 to 455 in 2024-25. Staffing shifted too: the ratio moved from 10.3:1 to 8.5:1.
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Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
- JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,292 students
- MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 419 students
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- CARLYLE C RING ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 373 students
- PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 373 students
Other schools in JAMESTOWN
- JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,292 students
- SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 419 students
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
- SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 376 students
Other George Washington Middle schools
6 other US public schools in 6 states are named George Washington Middle. GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 6th largest of the 7.
- George Washington MiddleAlexandria, VA · 1,458 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolRIDGEWOOD, NJ · 644 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolDubuque, IA · 584 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolLAREDO, TX · 579 students
- George Washington Middle SchoolWAYNE, NJ · 493 students
Nearby schools
- CARLYLE C RING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.4 mi · 373
- SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.9 mi · 289
- JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL1.1 mi · 1,292
- CLINTON V BUSH ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.6 mi · 283
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.8 mi · 377
- FALCONER MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL2.1 mi · 616
Frequently asked questions
About GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 455 students in grades 05-08.
What grades does GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL serve?
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL serves grades 05-08.
How many students per teacher at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Approximately 8.5:1 students per teacher at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL?
Student demographics at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL are roughly 48% White, 36% Hispanic, 7% Black, 0% Asian, 9% Two or more.
What district is GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.