MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

Located at 301 COLE AVE, in JAMESTOWN, New York, MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a medium-sized elementary school that caters to 509 students (grades pre-K through 4), run under JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT.

JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT comprises 9 schools with combined enrollment of 4,370 students; MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is among them.

On demographics, MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL logs that White students make up the majority at 60%; the rest reads as 24% Hispanic, 14% multiracial, 2% Black. The wider county runs roughly 86% White, putting the school's mix visibly less White than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL tighter than the state norm the norm. An estimated 78% 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 somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 46.5%; actual is 17.9%, a gap of -28.6 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Chautauqua County indicate median household income runs about $58,351, 25% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL comes 9th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 38.8%.

MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL operates from a town-based location.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has contracted 8%, going from 551 students in 2018 to 509 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 16% to 24% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 13.1:1 in 2018 to 10.6:1 in 2025.

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