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What's the biggest difference between West Chester East HS and what you expected?
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Enrollment
1,216
High
DISTRICT 1,273 · STATE 738
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·WEST CHESTER AREA SD·NCES 422529006734
West Chester East High School
450 Ellis Ln, West Chester, PA 19380 · (484) 266-3800 · Chester County
GRADES 09–12HIGH21-SUBURBREGULAR SCHOOL1,216 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of Pennsylvania public high schools
- ATest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 high schools
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
94 FTE teachers
DISTRICT 12.9:1 · STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
24%
293 students
DISTRICT 19% · STATE 75%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other high schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 9 | 278 | 23% |
| Grade 10 | 326 | 27% |
| Grade 11 | 303 | 25% |
| Grade 12 | 309 | 25% |
Student demographics
51%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
DISTRICT 47% · 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
81.5%
PA avg 51.1% . +0.4pp since 2023
Math
58.7%
PA avg 43.0% . +6.3pp since 2023
What this means: On the PSSA + Keystone, Pennsylvania's statewide test, about 82 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 59 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 6 points.
PSSA + Keystone results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 81.5% | 58.7% |
| 2023-24 | 81.1% | 52.4% |
% 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
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
66.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
67.3%
based on PA schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.0pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 67% 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%.
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 West Chester East High School
West Chester East High School's state test result (66.3% proficient) is higher than 0 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| West Chester East High School this school | 1,216 | 24.1% | 66.3% |
| West Chester Henderson High School West Chester | 1,444 | 21.8% | 67.2% |
| Strath Haven High School Wallingford | 1,175 | 20.7% | 77.0% |
| Upper Dublin High School Fort Washington | 1,272 | 20.4% | 68.0% |
| Fox Chapel Area High School Pittsburgh | 1,360 | 22.6% | 89.8% |
| Springfield High School Springfield | 1,434 | 24.5% | 82.3% |
Matched among Pennsylvania high 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 West Chester East High School ranks
Among high schools| Measure | This school | In Pennsylvania | In Chester County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.3% | #96 of 576 | #9 of 17 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.7% | #122 of 626 ▲ 22 | #8 of 17 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 81.5% | #55 of 626 ▲ 17 | #5 of 17 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 1,216 | #126 of 713 | #10 of 20 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 13.0:1 | #224 of 601 | #3 of 17 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 50.6% | #145 of 604 | #10 of 17 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 24.1% | #571 of 619 | #8 of 17 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.6% | #344 of 373 | #8 of 8 |
Ranked against other public high 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
1,216
-21 (-2%) vs 2020
-19% since 1990-91, when it was 1,496
Student : Teacher
13.0:1
was 14.7:1
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 | 1,216 | 93.6 | 13.0:1 | 24% (293) |
| 2023-24 | 1,246 | 94.9 | 13.1:1 | 24% (293) |
| 2022-23 | 1,251 | 89.8 | 13.9:1 | 20% (251) |
| 2020-21 | 1,237 | 84 | 14.7:1 | 15% (183) |
| 2017-18 | 1,236 | 84.7 | 14.6:1 | N/A |
| 2015-16 | 1,270 | 91 | 14.0:1 | 14% (176) |
| 2010-11 | 1,365 | 94 | 14.5:1 | 11% (153) |
| 2000-01 | 1,576 | 100 | 15.8:1 | 5% (75) |
| 1990-91 | 1,496 | 105 | 14.3:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for West Chester East High School.
Since 2017-18: students down 2% (1,236 to 1,216); teachers up 11% (84.7 to 93.6).
About West Chester East High School
West Chester East High School is listed by the National Center for Education Statistics as a high school in West Chester, Pennsylvania. The school serves grades 9 through 12. Enrollment is 1,216 students. That is 65% larger than the average of about 738 students for high schools in Pennsylvania.
West Chester East High School is one school in a 17-school district, West Chester Area SD, which enrolls 11,987 students.
White students are 68% of those enrolled at West Chester East High School. The next largest groups are 12% Hispanic, 9% Asian, 6% Black, and 5% multiracial. In Chester County overall, about 77% of residents are White. On a 0 to 100 scale, the school's diversity index is 51, compared with 70 nationally.
West Chester East High School has 93.6 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 13.0:1. The average for high schools in Pennsylvania is about 12.8:1. Eligibility for free or reduced-price lunch, often used to gauge student poverty, is 24%. For comparison, public schools in Chester County average 38%.
Among Pennsylvania public high schools, West Chester East High School outscored 75%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
The model predicts 67.3% for a school in Pennsylvania with West Chester East High School's free or reduced-price lunch share. West Chester East High School posts 66.3%.
American Community Survey estimates for Chester County show that the median household earns about $127,208 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 57%, and roughly 4% of residents are in poverty. Across Chester County, 111 public schools serve about 83,468 students.
West Chester East High School's closest public school neighbor is J R Fugett Middle School, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around West Chester East High School holds at least 8 other public schools. Local comparison: West Chester East High School ranks 6th of 7 nearby schools, at 66.3% versus a 67.0% average.
The school is in a suburban area outside a principal city, within an urbanized area with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (Suburb: Large).
Enrollment has been fairly stable: 1,237 in 2020-21 and 1,216 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 14.7:1; by 2024-25 it was 13.0:1.
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Chester County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
547,840
Census ACS
Median income
$127,208
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
57%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
4%
Below federal line
Schools in county
111
83,468 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in West Chester Area SD
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- J R Fugett Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
- Stetson Middle SchoolMiddle · 808 students
- Sarah W Starkweather Elementary SchoolElementary · 576 students
Other schools in West Chester
- Pennsylvania Leadership CSCombined · 2,874 students
- West Chester Henderson High SchoolHigh · 1,444 students
- West Chester Bayard Rustin High SchoolHigh · 1,159 students
- E N Peirce Middle SchoolMiddle · 1,040 students
- 21st Century Cyber CSHigh · 996 students
- J R Fugett Middle SchoolMiddle · 930 students
Nearby schools
- J R Fugett Middle School0.0 mi · 930
- Glen Acres Elementary School0.8 mi · 451
- 21st Century Cyber CS0.8 mi · 996
- Pennsylvania Leadership CS0.8 mi · 2,874
- Fern Hill Elementary School1.2 mi · 408
- East Goshen Elementary School1.4 mi · 510
Frequently asked questions
About West Chester East High SchoolHow large is West Chester East High School?
West Chester East High School enrolls approximately 1,216 students in grades 09-12.
What grades does West Chester East High School serve?
West Chester East High School serves grades 09-12.
What is the student-teacher ratio at West Chester East High School?
The student-to-teacher ratio at West Chester East High School is approximately 13.0:1 (94 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at West Chester East High School?
Student demographics at West Chester East High School are roughly 68% White, 12% Hispanic, 6% Black, 9% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Is West Chester East High School public or private?
West Chester East High School is a public K-12 school, overseen by West Chester Area SD.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.