SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL operates as a close-knit secondary school in JAMESTOWN, New York, part of SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN. Current enrollment sits at 376 students spanning grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 44% smaller than the state mean of about 668.

Across the 3 schools in SOUTHWESTERN CENTRAL SCHOOL DISTRICT AT JAMESTOWN (1,230 students total), SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

Looking at the student body, SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL lists that nearly all students (87%) are White. The remainder reads as 6% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That composition is broadly in line with Chautauqua County as a whole.

Looking at school resources, SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL reports 39 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 38% of students at SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Chautauqua County (around 57%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 61.0% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 75.7%.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Chautauqua County indicate median household earnings sit near $58,351, roughly 25% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, Chautauqua County runs 51 public schools (combined enrollment of about 17,056 students), of which SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL is one.

SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SOUTHWESTERN SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL ranks 1st on composite proficiency, higher than the local average of 42.4%.

The campus sits in a small-town setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count contracted 10%: 420 students in 2018 compared to 376 in 2025. Class-load math has tightened: from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 in 2025.

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