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Which teacher or staff member at Chester Community CS deserves more recognition?
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Enrollment
3,782
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CHESTER COMMUNITY CS·NCES 420003500388
Chester Community CS
302 East 5th Street, Chester, PA 19013 · (610) 447-0400 · Delaware County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY21-SUBURBCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL3,782 STUDENTS
F
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Scored higher than 0% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools
- FTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- FBeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded Pennsylvania public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
184 FTE teachers
STATE 13.1:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
100%
3,779 students
STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 343 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 420 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 409 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 461 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 417 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 445 | 12% |
| Grade 6 | 443 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 420 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 424 | 11% |
This year's kindergarten class (343) is 19% smaller than its 8th grade class (424).
Student demographics
37%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 59% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedEnglish Language Arts
10.0%
PA avg 51.1% . -1.7pp since 2023
Math
3.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 10 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 4 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores are down about 2 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 10.0% | 3.7% |
| 2023-24 | 11.7% | 3.6% |
% Proficient or Advanced, all students and all tested grades.
Source: PSSA + Keystone. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
UNDERPERFORMING
Bottom 10% of PA schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
8.1%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
34.8%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-26.7pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 8% of students here test proficient in math and reading, below the roughly 35% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations compares each school with others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school lands here when its results trail those comparable schools, which is not the same as having low scores. A higher-scoring school can still fall in this tier if similar schools score higher still.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like Chester Community CS
Chester Community CS's state test result (8.1% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chester Community CS this school | 3,782 | 99.9% | 8.1% |
| Wissahickon CS Philadelphia | 965 | 96.4% | 23.8% |
| KIPP West Philadelphia CS Philadelphia | 848 | 99.6% | 19.2% |
| Northwood Academy CS Philadelphia | 796 | 88.6% | 22.1% |
| Lindley Academy CS at Birney Philadelphia | 739 | 98.2% | 13.7% |
| Mastery CS-Smedley Campus Philadelphia | 751 | 99.6% | 26.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where Chester Community CS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Delaware County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 8.1% | #1,392 of 1,396 | #59 of 59 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 3.7% | #1,500 of 1,511 ▼ 16 | #68 of 69 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 10.0% | #1,484 of 1,511 ▲ 6 | #67 of 69 ▲ 1 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 3,782 | #1 of 1,638 | #1 of 75 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.6:1 | #1,519 of 1,528 | #74 of 74 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 37.1% | #829 of 1,531 | #54 of 74 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 99.9% | #309 of 1,600 | #18 of 73 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -8.5% | #716 of 1,045 | #24 of 45 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
3,782
-687 (-15%) vs 2020
+1782% since 2000-01, when it was 201
Student : Teacher
20.6:1
was 15.2:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 3,782 | 184 | 20.6:1 | 100% (3,779) |
| 2023-24 | 4,193 | 189.5 | 22.1:1 | 100% (4,190) |
| 2022-23 | 4,276 | 234.5 | 18.2:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 4,469 | 295 | 15.2:1 | 100% (4,460) |
| 2017-18 | 4,134 | 242 | 17.1:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 2,964 | 202 | 14.7:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 2,734 | 169 | 16.2:1 | 80% (2,197) |
| 2000-01 | 201 | 11 | 18.3:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for Chester Community CS.
Since 2017-18: students down 9% (4,134 to 3,782); teachers down 24% (242 to 184).
About Chester Community CS
In Chester, Pennsylvania, part of Delaware County, Chester Community CS is an elementary school. The school counted 3,782 students in 2024-25, covering kindergarten through 8. It has 754% more students than the average for elementary schools in Pennsylvania (about 443).
Chester Community CS is its own local education agency in federal data.
The share of Black students at Chester Community CS is 77%, a majority. The remaining students are 17% Hispanic and 4% multiracial. Census figures show Delaware County is about 22% Black. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 37, compared with 70 nationally.
Chester Community CS has 184 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 20.6:1. Elementary schools in Pennsylvania average 13.1:1, 7.5 fewer students per teacher than here. A common income measure, free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, is 100% at Chester Community CS. That rate is above the 58% average among public schools in Delaware County.
On the allk12 Grade, Chester Community CS lands at F, ahead of 0% of Pennsylvania public elementary schools.
Schools in Pennsylvania with a similar free or reduced-price lunch share are predicted to post an average proficiency rate across its state test results near 34.8%. Chester Community CS posts 8.1%, 26.7 points below that, which places it in the bottom 10% statewide on BeatsExpectations.
Five-year Census Bureau estimates for Delaware County show that the median household earns about $89,546 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 7% of people live in poverty. Delaware County has 113 public schools with about 74,663 students, including Chester Community CS.
Chester High School sits about 0.6 miles from Chester Community CS. Chester Community CS has at least 8 other public schools within five miles. The nearest schools with test data average 34.0%, higher than Chester Community CS's 8.1%.
The NCES locale for Chester Community CS is Suburb: Large, which covers schools in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more. Chester Community CS is run as a public charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Chester Community CS had a net loss of 687 students, or 15%. By 2024-25, the school had 20.6 students per teacher, compared with 15.2 in 2020-21.
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Delaware County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
579,222
Census ACS
Median income
$89,546
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
7%
Below federal line
Schools in county
113
74,663 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in Chester
- Chester High SchoolHigh · 806 students
- Chester Charter Scholars Academy CSCombined · 701 students
- STEM at ShowalterHigh · 477 students
- Edgmont Scholars AcademyElementary · 422 students
- Chester Upland School of ArtsElementary · 384 students
- Stetser Elementary SchoolElementary · 251 students
Nearby schools
- Chester High School0.6 mi · 806
- Edgmont Scholars Academy0.7 mi · 422
- Chester Upland School of Arts0.7 mi · 384
- Stetser Elementary School0.9 mi · 251
- Eddystone Elementary School1.0 mi · 226
- STEM at Showalter1.1 mi · 477
Frequently asked questions
About Chester Community CSHow large is Chester Community CS?
Chester Community CS enrolls approximately 3,782 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does Chester Community CS serve?
Chester Community CS serves grades KG-08.
How many teachers does Chester Community CS have?
Chester Community CS employs 184 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.6:1.
How diverse is Chester Community CS?
Chester Community CS reports a student body of 1% White, 17% Hispanic, 77% Black, 0% Asian, 4% Two or more.
What district is Chester Community CS in?
Chester Community CS is part of Chester Community CS.
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