Enrollment
266
Middle
DISTRICT 410 · STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN·NCES 362766003755
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
600 HUNT RD W, JAMESTOWN, NY 14701 · (716) 664-6270 · Chautauqua County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE32-TOWNTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL266 STUDENTS
B+
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Scored higher than 70% of New York public middle schools
- B+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- BBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public middle schools
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
26 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 10.3:1 · STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
43%
114 students
DISTRICT 39% · STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 80 | 30% |
| Grade 7 | 76 | 29% |
| Grade 8 | 110 | 41% |
Student demographics
29%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 27% · STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
School pathway
Students here typically continue to
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL→SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL
Feeds from
Based on grade levels within SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN. Attendance zones can vary; confirm enrollment with the district.
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
64.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
54.3%
NY avg 57.4% . -0.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 64 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 54 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 64.0% | 54.3% |
| 2023-24 | 53.0% | 54.6% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
62.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
59.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+2.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 62% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 59% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL's state test result (62.1% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL this school | 266 | 42.9% | 62.1% |
| RONDOUT VALLEY JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ACCORD | 278 | 45.0% | 56.0% |
| DRYDEN MIDDLE SCHOOL DRYDEN | 283 | 44.2% | 55.4% |
| CHATHAM MIDDLE SCHOOL CHATHAM | 226 | 42.5% | 48.9% |
| WILLIAMSON MIDDLE SCHOOL WILLIAMSON | 270 | 46.7% | 42.3% |
| LOWVILLE MIDDLE SCHOOL LOWVILLE | 263 | 45.6% | 63.5% |
Matched among New York middle schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Chautauqua County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 62.1% | #237 of 766 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 54.3% | #443 of 768 ▼ 31 | #2 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 64.0% | #161 of 768 ▲ 91 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 266 | #623 of 796 | #5 of 6 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 10.3:1 | #335 of 683 | #6 of 6 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 29.3% | #546 of 688 | #6 of 6 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 42.9% | #504 of 773 | #5 of 6 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -13.1% | #252 of 524 | N/A |
Ranked against other public middle schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
266
-35 (-12%) vs 2020
-35% since 1990-91, when it was 409
Student : Teacher
10.3:1
was 11.6:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 266 | 25.9 | 10.3:1 | 43% (114) |
| 2023-24 | 281 | 26.6 | 10.6:1 | 44% (123) |
| 2022-23 | 307 | 27.3 | 11.3:1 | 39% (121) |
| 2020-21 | 301 | 26 | 11.6:1 | 39% (117) |
| 2017-18 | 306 | 19 | 16.1:1 | 36% (111) |
| 2015-16 | 316 | 22 | 14.4:1 | 33% (103) |
| 2010-11 | 348 | 24 | 14.5:1 | 24% (82) |
| 2000-01 | 433 | 29 | 14.9:1 | 18% (76) |
| 1990-91 | 409 | 27 | 15.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL.
About SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL
In JAMESTOWN, New York, SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a small middle school. It had 266 students in 2024-25, spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, middle schools in New York enroll about 531 students on average.
SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN runs 3 schools with a combined 1,230 students. SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is one of them.
White students are 83% of those enrolled at SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL. Other reported shares: 8% Hispanic, 6% multiracial, and 2% Asian. That is in line with Chautauqua County, where about 86% of residents are White. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 29%.
There are 25.9 full-time-equivalent teachers at SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL, giving a ratio of 10.3:1. The average ratio among middle schools in New York is similar, at 10.3:1. A total of 114 students, or 43%, are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Chautauqua County average 57%.
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL earns a B+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 70% of New York public middle schools.
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 62.1% is 2.8 points above the 59.2% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Chautauqua County show that median household income comes to about $58,351, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 25% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 12%. Chautauqua County counts 51 public schools with about 17,056 students.
Less than a tenth of a mile separates SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL from the closest public school, SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL. The five-mile area around SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL ranks 2nd of 9 among nearby schools on average proficiency, with 62.1% against a local average of 44.1%.
Its location is classified as Town: Distant by the National Center for Education Statistics.
Enrollment fell 12% over 4 years, reaching 266 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 11.6:1; by 2024-25 it was 10.3:1.
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Chautauqua County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
125,544
Census ACS
Median income
$58,351
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
25%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
12%
Below federal line
Schools in county
51
17,056 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN
- SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 376 students
Other schools in JAMESTOWN
- JAMESTOWN HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 1,292 students
- SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 588 students
- MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 509 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 455 students
- THOMAS JEFFERSON MIDDLE SCHOOLMiddle · 419 students
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 377 students
Other Southwestern Middle schools
4 other US public schools in 4 states are named Southwestern Middle. SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the 4th largest of the 5.
- SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLDELAND, FL · 664 students
- Southwestern Middle SchoolLafayette, IN · 491 students
- Southwestern Middle SchoolHanover, IN · 280 students
- Southwestern Middle SchoolPiasa, IL · 171 students
Nearby schools
- SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL0.0 mi · 376
- SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL0.2 mi · 588
- ABRAHAM LINCOLN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL1.9 mi · 377
- PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL2.0 mi · 373
- SAMUEL G LOVE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 289
- MILTON J FLETCHER ELEMENTARY SCHOOL2.7 mi · 509
Frequently asked questions
About SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOLHow many students attend SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL enrolls approximately 266 students in grades 06-08.
Is SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL have?
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL employs 26 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 10.3:1.
How diverse is SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL?
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL reports a student body of 83% White, 8% Hispanic, 0% Black, 2% Asian, 6% Two or more.
What district is SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL in?
SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is part of SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN.
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