JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL

JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL, a substantial high school in JAMESTOWN, New York, one of the schools within JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, serves 1,292 students, covering grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 668 students per school, that is 93% bigger than typical.

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

On the student-mix side, JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL logs that 59% of the student body identifies as White; the rest looks like 27% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 4% Black. That is meaningfully less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 86%.

On the resource side, On paper, JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL has 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 76% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chautauqua County runs at roughly 57%, so the school's eligibility rate is above the surrounding baseline.

With demographic context factored in, JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 47.2%; this one delivers 58.7%.

Around the school, Chautauqua County reports that the typical household earns roughly $58,351 per year, about 25% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across Chautauqua County's 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, roughly 0.4 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 33.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a town-center area.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL has edged down 5%, going from 1,362 students in 2018 to 1,292 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked up from 18% to 27%. Class-load math has tightened: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 in 2025.

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