Chester Community Charter School

Chester Community Charter School is the sole elementary school serving grades K-8 in the Chester Community Charter School District, which is ranked 597 out of 606 districts in Pennsylvania and has a 0-star rating from SchoolDigger. With a total enrollment of 4,193 students, this public charter school has consistently ranked in the bottom 1-2% of Pennsylvania elementary schools over the past three school years, indicating significant and persistent academic underperformance.

The school's proficiency rates in math, English Language Arts (ELA), and science are all dramatically lower than the state averages, with some grade levels having proficiency rates below 10%. For example, the school's math proficiency rates range from 2.2% to 6.1% proficient or better, compared to the state average of 30.5% to 53.5%. Similarly, the school's ELA proficiency rates range from 5.4% to 17.9% proficient or better, compared to the state average of 44.7% to 50.8%. This suggests that Chester Community Charter School is struggling to provide a high-quality education to its students.

Despite the school's high spending per student of $22,692 and an extremely high rate of free and reduced-price lunch recipients at 99.93%, the academic outcomes remain significantly below the state averages. This combination of low performance, high poverty, and high spending per student suggests that the school may be facing significant challenges in terms of student needs, resource allocation, and instructional effectiveness, which will likely require a comprehensive approach to address the root causes of the school's underperformance.