Chester Community CS

Chester Community CS operates as a substantial primary school in Chester, Pennsylvania, overseen by Chester Community CS. Current enrollment sits at 3,782 students spanning grades K through 8. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 443 students each, so Chester Community CS sits 754% bigger than that benchmark.

Chester Community CS is a school of Chester Community CS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

On the student-mix side, Chester Community CS records that the largest single group is Black, at 77% of enrollment. The remainder breaks down as 17% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 22%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 184 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 20.6:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 13.1:1, putting Chester Community CS higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 100% of students at Chester Community CS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. By comparison, Delaware County runs at roughly 58%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, On a poverty-adjusted basis, Chester Community CS sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 34.8%; actual is 8.1%, a gap of -26.7 points.

In the broader community, Delaware County reports that the typical household earns roughly $89,546 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. Across Delaware County's 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), Chester Community CS is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Chester HS, around 0.6 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chester Community CS. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), Chester Community CS ranks 6th on composite proficiency, behind the local average of 34.0%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. As a public charter, Chester Community CS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count declined 9%: 4,134 students in 2018 compared to 3,782 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 85% to 77% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 17.1:1 in 2018 to 20.6:1 today.

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