SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL, a low-enrollment elementary-level community in JAMESTOWN, New York, run under JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT, works with 289 students, covering grades pre-K through 4. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 35% smaller than typical.

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

Looking at the student body, SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL lists that 42% of students identify as White, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. Other groups include 40% Hispanic, 10% Black, 8% multiracial. By comparison, Chautauqua County as a whole is about 86% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.7:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 85% of students at SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Chautauqua County (around 57%), the school's rate is somewhat above typical.

With demographic context factored in, SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL falls in the UNDERPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations residual. Given its student profile, a typical campus would land near 43.6%; this one comes in at 20.2%, -23.4 points off the demographic line.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Chautauqua County) logs that 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%. SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one of 51 public schools in Chautauqua County (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students).

JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. 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), SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 8th on composite proficiency, beneath the local average of 38.5%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL has decreased 9%, going from 316 students in 2018 to 289 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 11.3:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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