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Chester Community Charter School (), also known as Chester Community Charter, is a not-for-profit public charter school in Chester, Pennsylvania, serving the Chester-Upland School District. The school provides full-day kindergarten through 8th grade. Students apply to attend and the school is open to students from the Delaware County and Philadelphia region. It describes itself as "dedicated to empowering students as learners through the development of a learning community".〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=CCCS Mission )〕 The school is governed by a six-member board of directors. The administration consists of a CEO, a deputy superintendent, a chief financial officer and a principal at each school building. CCCS operates two campuses; one located in Chester City, known as the East Campus and one located in Chester Township, known as the West Campus. Each campus contains multiple newly constructed school buildings. The school is a federally designated Title I school. Under Pennsylvania charter school law (Act 22), charter schools are public schools. They cannot levy taxes. The school is funded by state and federal per pupil funding (Title I monies), along with funds from successful applications for competitive grants and donations. In addition to the 180 days of instruction in the regular school year, CCCS offers a five-week summer school for those students who do not achieve grade level performance on the reading and math PSSAs. In 2013, Chester Community Charter School enrollment is 3,033 students in grades K through 8th grade, with 94% of pupils receiving a federal free or reduced price meals due to family poverty. Additionally, 22.9% of the pupils receive special education services, while none were identified as gifted.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chester Community Charter School Fast Facts 2013 )〕 According to a report by the Pennsylvania Department of Education, 100% of the teachers were rated highly qualified under No Child Left Behind. The school provides full day kindergarten.〔Pennsylvania Department of Education, School Performance Profile, Chester Community Charter School Fast Facts 2013, 2013〕 The school is a federally designated Title I school. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, in 2011, enrollment was 3,017 pupils in grades Kindergarten through 8th, with 2,458 pupils receiving a free or reduced price lunch. The School employed 183 teachers yielding a student-teacher ratio of 16:1.〔National Center for Education Statistics, Common Core Data – Chester Community Charter School, 2013〕 The School provided full day kindergarten to all its pupils.〔Pennsylvania Partnership for Children, Full-Day Kindergarten Enrollment, 2010〕 ==History and achievements== In 1998, when the school was founded, it had 97 students in the first class, and took up four meeting rooms in the lobby of the Howard Johnson's Hotel on the corner of Chester's Edgemont and Providence Avenues. It grew to few small trailers, then started its own campus, and as of 2009 had expanded to two campuses, with over 2,100 students in state-of-the-art buildings. As the school has grown, it has developed five separate elementary school campuses and two middle school campuses, each with its own principal. Enrollment in 2006 was 1,727 students Kindergarten-7th grade.〔The Philadelphia Inquirer, Report Card on Schools database, 2006〕 In 2010 the enrollment increased to over 2600 pupils The school attracts students from the Philadelphia City School District and multiple Delaware County school districts including: Chester Upland School District, Chichester School District, Garnet Valley School District, Interboro School District, Penn-Delco School District, Ridley School District, Southeast Delco School District, Upper Darby School District, Wallingford-Swarthmore School District and William Penn School District.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Charter School Database 2010-11 )〕 By Pennsylvania School Code, each school district, that provides transportation for its students; must provide transportation to a charter school, if the charter school lies within 10 miles of the district's attendance borders. In 2009, more than half of the city students honored by the annual mayoral academic awards came from CCCS. The attendance rate in 2010 and 2011 was 90%.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Chester Community Charter School AYP DataTable )〕 The school strives to motivate parents to be involved in the school by providing a banquet at the end of the school year, with prizes including vacation packages. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Chester Community Charter School」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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