Public school / High
West Chester Henderson Hs
West Chester, Pennsylvania
- NCES ID
- 422529001453
- District
- West Chester Area SD
- School type
- Regular
- Title I
- Not designated
West Chester Henderson Hs is a public high school in West Chester, Pennsylvania, run by West Chester Area SD. It enrols 1,429 students — the 4163rd largest of 2,956 public schools in Pennsylvania.
Reported figures, 2022–2023
The Common Core of Data is a directory collection: it records size and staffing, not achievement. Nothing here says whether a school is good.
Enrollment
1,429
Teachers
94.0
Students per teacher
15.2
Free or reduced-price lunch
16.1%
How these figures are defined
Enrollment
Students reported in the autumn headcount. Size is not quality — it is here because it is the figure every other one has to be read against, and because a school of 90 and a school of 4,000 are not comparable on anything else.
Teachers
Classroom teachers in full-time equivalents, so a half-time teacher counts as 0.5. Non-teaching staff are excluded.
Students per teacher
Enrollment divided by teacher FTE. It is not class size: it counts every teacher against every student, including specialists who never take a full class. A school can have 15 students per teacher and 30 in the room.
Free or reduced-price lunch
Share of students eligible for free or reduced-price meals — the most widely used proxy for concentrated poverty in a school. Districts under community eligibility report all students as eligible, which inflates the figure and makes cross-district comparison unreliable.
Within West Chester Area SD
Schools in the same district, which is the comparison the data actually supports — a peer group defined by who runs them rather than by whichever names sort nearby.
- 1West Chester Henderson Hs1,429 students
- 2West Chester East Hs1,251 students
- 3West Chester Bayard Rustin Hs1,210 students
- 4E N Peirce Ms1,018 students
- 5J R Fugett Ms908 students
- 6Stetson Ms843 students
- 7Sarah W Starkweather El Sch578 students
- 8Hillsdale El Sch545 students
- Enrollment+180.2%
- Teachers+168.6%
- Students per teacher+12.6%
- Free or reduced-price lunch−68.6%
Where this sits
Sources & licence
Collected by the National Center for Education Statistics. Nothing here is edited, interpolated or estimated.
Provenance
- National Center for Education Statistics
- Common Core of Data — school and district directory