Chichester SHS

Chichester SHS is a secondary school of average-sized scale in Boothwyn, Pennsylvania, operated by Chichester SD, enrolling 981 students in grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so Chichester SHS sits 33% larger than that benchmark.

Across the 6 schools in Chichester SD (2,899 students total), Chichester SHS accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

In terms of who attends, Chichester SHS records that the most-represented group is White (48%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school lists 30% Black, 10% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 2% Asian. That is noticeably less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 63%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school employs 73 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.4:1. That tracks the state average closely. An estimated 61% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, Chichester SHS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 51.5%, the actual is 42.0%, a residual of -9.5 points.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate 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%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which Chichester SHS is one.

Chichester MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Chichester SHS. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts Chichester SHS at 6th of 9; the average score across the group is 49.3%.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area.

Over the past 7-year window. Chichester SHS's enrollment has rose 6% since 2018, when it stood at 929 (now 981). White enrollment moved from 59% to 48% across the same window.

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