STEM at Showalter

STEM at Showalter is a compact senior high in Chester, Pennsylvania, one of the schools within Chester-Upland SD. The school educates 477 students in grades 7 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so STEM at Showalter sits 35% below that benchmark.

Across the 7 schools in Chester-Upland SD (3,039 students total), STEM at Showalter accounts for its share of the district's footprint.

For racial and ethnic makeup, STEM at Showalter reports that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (81%). Other groups include 14% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 22% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is north of Delaware County's rate of about 58%.

With demographic context factored in, On a poverty-adjusted basis, STEM at Showalter sits in the bottom 10% statewide. Predicted proficiency from the FRL regression is roughly 38.4%; actual is 18.0%, a gap of -20.4 points.

Around the school, community-level numbers for Delaware County indicate median household income runs about $89,546, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, Delaware County runs 113 public schools (combined enrollment of about 74,663 students), of which STEM at Showalter is one.

Chester Upland Sch of Arts is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, STEM at Showalter comes 4th of 6 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 24.8%.

The campus sits in an outer-ring setting.

Over the past 7-year window. STEM at Showalter's enrollment has held roughly steady since 2018, when it stood at 466 (now 477). Black enrollment moved from 88% to 81% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio rose from 12.3:1 in 2018 to 14.4:1 today.

On the community side, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.