Chichester High School
| Chichester School District | |
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401 Cherry Tree Road Upper Chichester, Pennsylvania, Delaware County 19061 United States |
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| Information | |
| Type | Public |
| Superintendent | Dr. Kathleen Sherman |
| School number | 9 locally elected members |
| Head teacher | Janice Miller Lion, Business Administrator |
| Faculty | 227 teachers (2010) |
| Grades | K-12 |
| Age | 5 years old to 21 years old Special Education |
| Enrollment | 3,364 pupils |
| • Kindergarten | 229 |
| • Grade 1 | 258 |
| • Grade 2 | 244 |
| • Grade 3 | 258 |
| • Grade 4 | 230 |
| • Grade 5 | 268 |
| • Grade 6 | 231 |
| • Grade 7 | 265 |
| • Grade 8 | 239 |
| • Grade 9 | 313 |
| • Grade 10 | 288 |
| • Grade 11 | 274 |
| • Grade 12 | 259 |
| • Other | enrollment projected by PDE to be 3693 pupils by 2020 |
| Color(s) | Maroon & Gray |
| Mascot | Eagles |
| Budget | $62,533,160. (2012–13) |
| Tuition | for nonresident and charter school students ES - $11,752.69, HS - $12,249.59 |
| Website | http://www.chichestersd.org/ |
The Chichester School District is a midsized, suburban public school district located in southeastern Delaware County, Pennsylvania. It encompasses approximately 11 square miles covering the Boroughs of Marcus Hook and Trainer and Lower Chichester Township and Upper Chichester Township in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. According to 2000 federal census data, Chichester School District serves a resident population of 24,648. In 2009, the district residents’ per capita income was $20,972, while the median family income was $57,240. In the Commonwealth, the median family income was $49,501 and the United States median family income was $49,445, in 2010. According to District officials, in school year 2007–08 the Chichester School District provided basic educational services to 3,571 pupils through the employment of 302 teachers, 239 full-time and part-time support personnel, and 27 administrators. Chichester School District received more than $16.2 million in state funding in school year 2007–08.
Chichester School District is often incorrectly considered part of Aston, Pennsylvania because of the zip-code of the location where the school district is based out of is in Twin Oaks, Pennsylvania (Part of Chichester, Pennsylvania, but commonly associated with the Aston zip-code).
There are currently four public elementary schools serving the school district:
The school district is governed by 9 individually elected board members (serve four-year terms), the Pennsylvania State Board of Education, the Pennsylvania Department of Education and the Pennsylvania General Assembly. The federal government controls programs it funds like Title I funding for low-income children in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act and the No Child Left Behind Act, which mandates the district focus resources on student success in acquiring reading and math skills.
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