West Chester Bayard Rustin HS

West Chester Bayard Rustin HS operates as a substantial senior high in West Chester, Pennsylvania, run under West Chester Area SD. Current enrollment sits at 1,159 students spanning grades 9 through 12. By comparison, Pennsylvania's public schools average about 738 students each, so West Chester Bayard Rustin HS sits 57% above that benchmark.

West Chester Area SD runs 17 schools in total, collectively educating 11,987 students. West Chester Bayard Rustin HS is one of those campuses.

For racial and ethnic makeup, West Chester Bayard Rustin HS logs that the largest single group is White, at 78% of enrollment; the rest is composed of 7% Black, 6% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial. Compared to Chester County overall, the school's racial mix sits in roughly the same range.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 91 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.7:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 20% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. Set against Chester County (around 38%), the school's rate is noticeably below typical.

With demographic context factored in, West Chester Bayard Rustin HS tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 69.1% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 61.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Chester County indicate median household earnings sit near $127,208, 57% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 4%. In all, Chester County runs 111 public schools (combined enrollment of about 83,468 students), of which West Chester Bayard Rustin HS is one.

Westtown-Thornbury El Sch is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around West Chester Bayard Rustin HS. On composite proficiency, West Chester Bayard Rustin HS comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 65.7%.

Geographically, the school is in a residential area.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at West Chester Bayard Rustin HS has declined 11%, going from 1,301 students in 2018 to 1,159 in 2025. The White share of enrollment fell from 84% to 78% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.7:1 in 2018 to 12.7:1 today.

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