SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL

SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is a mid-sized elementary-level community in JAMESTOWN, New York, run under SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN. The school teaches 588 students in grades pre-K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 33% bigger than typical.

Within SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN, which oversees 3 schools and 1,230 students, SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL records that the student body is overwhelmingly White (85%). Other groups include 7% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, 2% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

In terms of school funding signals, SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL shows 53 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 11.2:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 35% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is south of Chautauqua County's rate of about 57%.

With demographic context factored in, SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 62.0%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of -11.6 points.

In the area at large, census data for Chautauqua County shows median household earnings sit near $58,351, 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), SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 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), SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 45.6%.

The campus sits in a town-center setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL's enrollment has ticked down 4% since 2018, when it stood at 612 (now 588). The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 13.6:1 in 2018 to 11.2:1 today.

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