GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL

Set in JAMESTOWN, New York, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is a moderately sized 6-8 campus, run under JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT. It teaches 455 students across grades 5 through 8.

Within JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, which oversees 9 schools and 4,370 students, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL lists that the largest single group is White at 48%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder breaks down as 36% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix meaningfully less White than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL has 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 8.5:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. Roughly 88% of students at GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Chautauqua County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.7%, the actual is 32.4%, a residual of -10.3 points.

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 census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

CARLYLE C RING ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOL comes 5th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 35.8%.

The campus sits in a town-based setting.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 11%: 514 students in 2018 compared to 455 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share shrank from 53% to 48%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 10.7:1 in 2018 to 8.5:1 in 2025.

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