Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS

Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS is an all-grades campus of rural-scale scale in Chester, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS, educateing 701 students in grades K through 12. That puts it 61% below the typical public school in Pennsylvania, which averages around 1,819 students.

Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS sits inside Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS records that nearly all students (91%) are Black. Other groups include 6% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS has 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.6:1. The state averages around 15.5:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. An estimated 97% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. That share is noticeably above Delaware County's rate of about 58%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 35.8%, the actual is 24.1%, a residual of -11.7 points.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Delaware County shows the typical household earns roughly $89,546 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: STEM at Showalter, around 1.3 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS. On composite proficiency, Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS comes 5th of 8 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 32.5%.

The school occupies an outer-ring site. Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Chester Charter Scholars Academy CS has rose 17%, going from 597 students in 2018 to 701 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share edged down from 97% to 91%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 18.1:1 in 2018 to 13.6:1 today.

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