Charles F Patton MS

Charles F Patton MS is a middle-grades school of mid-sized scale in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, part of Unionville-Chadds Ford SD, teacheing 842 students in grades 6 through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 42% larger than the state mean of about 594.

Unionville-Chadds Ford SD runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 3,665 students. Charles F Patton MS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Charles F Patton MS lists that the largest single group is White, at 74% of enrollment. Other groups include 14% Asian, 5% multiracial, 4% Hispanic, 3% Black. That composition is broadly in line with Chester County as a whole.

On the resource side, On paper, Charles F Patton MS has 77 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 13.2:1 average. Roughly 10% of students at Charles F Patton MS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Charles F Patton MS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 73.5%, the actual is 74.9%, a residual of +1.4 points.

In the broader community, Chester County reports that the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, about 57% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Charles F Patton MS is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).

Unionville HS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Charles F Patton MS at 5th of 8; the average score across the group is 70.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Looking at the recent track record. Charles F Patton MS's enrollment has decreased 16% since 2018, when it stood at 997 (now 842). The student-to-teacher ratio fell from 12.7:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 today.

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