• Educational attainment refers to the highest level of education completed by an individual
• In today’s economy, a high school diploma is considered a basic requirement
• While the percentage of Jamestown and Chautauqua County residents who graduate from high school closely mirrors state and Federal percentages,  a significantly lower percentage of the local population has a Bachelor’s degree or higher than the rest of the state and the country as a whole
• This may be an indicator of the outmigration of educated, young people from the county
• While there have been a number of initiatives to encourage young professionals to return to Jamestown to live and work, especially those in the medical field, the statistics seem to indicate that the county suffers from a “brain drain”

 

EDUCATIONAL ATTAINMENT LEVEL

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Source: US Census Bureau State, County & USA Quick Facts: quickfacts.census.gov/ 

 

• As the figures from the Chautauqua Region Community Foundation (CRCF) data below would indicate, the community invests considerable resources in helping to educate young residents
• Unfortunately, there are no statistics to indicate how many of these scholarship recipients return to the area

Chautauqua Region Community Foundation Scholarship Information

Source: Chautauqua Region Community Foundation

 

• There is a growing effort to engage business and industry in educating students in needed skills and helping to keep young people here whether they be young professionals or tradesmen and women or factory workers