Chester Senior High

Chester Senior High, located in Chester, South Carolina, is a small high school. It reported 699 students in grades 9 through 12 in 2024-25. High schools in South Carolina have about 953 students on average; enrollment here is 27% lower.

Chester 01 counts 11 schools and 4,523 students, including Chester Senior High.

The student body at Chester Senior High is 53% Black. Beyond that, enrollment is 28% White, 13% Hispanic, and 6% multiracial. The Black share of the county population is lower, at 35%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 62%.

Staffing at Chester Senior High comes to 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, or 14.0:1. By comparison, the average for high schools in South Carolina is 15.5:1.

In Chester County, home to about 32,182 people, the median household earns about $52,458 a year, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 14% of adults, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 16%. Public schools in Chester County number 12, with about 4,523 students.

Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, Academy for Teaching and Learning, is about 0.9 miles. There are 5 other public schools within five miles.

The school's setting, by NCES definition, is Town: Distant: in a town some distance from an urbanized area.

Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, Chester Senior High had a net loss of 85 students, or 11%. The ratio of students to teachers went from 16.3:1 to 14.0:1 over the same years.

The allk12 page for Chester Senior High lets the school community talk about special education services, counseling, and support programs. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.