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Unionville HS
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Test scores
PSSA + Keystone 2024-25 . % Proficient or AdvancedWhat this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 88 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 75 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all Pennsylvania schools, those numbers are about 51 and 43. Reading and writing scores have held steady since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 82% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 74% typical for Pennsylvania schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among Pennsylvania's top nor bottom 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About Unionville HS
As a sizable secondary school in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania, Unionville HS hosts 1,263 students from grades 9 through 12, operated by Unionville-Chadds Ford SD. Compared to the state average of about 738 students per school, that is 71% larger than typical.
Unionville-Chadds Ford SD comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 3,665 students; Unionville HS is among them.
Looking at the student body, Unionville HS shows that White students make up the majority at 72%; the rest breaks down as 19% Asian, 5% Hispanic, 3% multiracial.
In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 100 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.6:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. About 8% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Chester County runs at roughly 38%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully below the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), Unionville HS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 74.1%, the actual is 81.6%, a residual of +7.5 points.
In the surrounding community, census data for Chester County shows the typical household earns roughly $127,208 per year, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. Unionville HS is one of 111 public schools in Chester County (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students).
Charles F Patton MS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, Unionville HS comes 3rd of 8 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 69.0%.
Geographically, the school is in a commuter-belt area.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Unionville HS has edged down 8%, going from 1,368 students in 2018 to 1,263 in 2025. White enrollment moved from 83% to 72% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 14.4:1 in 2018 to 12.6:1 today.
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