# PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL

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Full profile (human-readable): https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `361563004390`
- **School name**: PERSELL MIDDLE SCHOOL
- **Location**: JAMESTOWN, NY 14701
- **Address**: 375 BAKER ST
- **District**: JAMESTOWN CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT (LEAID `3615630`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Middle
- **Grade range**: 5–8
- **Coordinates**: 42.08350, -79.25330
- **Phone**: (716)483-4406

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 373
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 41
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 9.1:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 75.6%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - EM ELP: s
  - EM Attendance: 2
  - EM Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Core Performance: 2
  - EM Growth: 1
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 45.5% (201 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 0.0% [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 1.4% (5 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 23.2% (84 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.0%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 15.1%
- **Black/African American**: 0.2%
- **Asian**: 2.9%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 69.3%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.0%
- **Two or more races**: 12.4%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 76.2%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 14.4% — 52 students
- **English Learners**: 0.0%

## Disability category breakdown (CRDC)
- **Specific Learning Disability**: 27 students
- **Other Health Impairment**: 22 students
- **Autism**: 2 students
- **Visual Impairment**: 1 students

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $25,095
- **Federal share**: $6,007
- **State + local share**: $19,087
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 361
### District F-33 (2022)
- **District per-pupil revenue**: $23,605,367
- **Federal share**: 14.0%
- **State share**: 72.0%
- **Local share**: 14.0%
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $12,510,779

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $52,825
- **Poverty rate**: 13.3%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 28.4%
- **Unemployment**: 10.6%
- **Median gross rent**: $828
- **Foreign-born residents**: 2.9%
- **Single-parent households**: 10.8%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 27.1 miles (LITTLE VALLEY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 41
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.58 miles (THE LENNOX PROPERTY)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: JAMESTOWN BPU
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0

## Nearby schools performing better

### ela proficiency
- **SOUTHWESTERN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 1.9 mi away, 48% (this school: 35%)
- **SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 53% (this school: 35%)
- **FALCONER MIDDLE/HIGH SCHOOL** — 4.1 mi away, 36% (this school: 35%)
- **ROBERT H JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 37% (this school: 35%)
- **BEMUS POINT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 8.7 mi away, 51% (this school: 35%)

### math proficiency
- **SOUTHWESTERN MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 2.0 mi away, 60% (this school: 57.2%)
- **ROBERT H JACKSON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL** — 5.5 mi away, 72.5% (this school: 57.2%)
- **PANAMA K-6 SCHOOL** — 11.9 mi away, 69% (this school: 57.2%)
- **PANAMA HIGH SCHOOL** — 11.9 mi away, 75.75% (this school: 57.2%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/persell-middle-school-jamestown/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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