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CCCS makes AYP for 3rd consecutive year

Submitted by jtotoro on October 13, 2011 - 4:35pm

Chester Community Charter School Students Achieve

AYP for the Third Year in a Row

2010-2011 PSSA testing results demonstrate a 13.6 % increase over last year in third to eighth grade students testing advanced or proficient in math and reading

 
Chester, PA September 27, 2011 - Chester Community Charter School (CCCS), the largest kindergarten through eighth grade charter school in Pennsylvania, was notified today by the Pennsylvania Department of Education that the school’s 2010-2011 Pennsylvania State System of School Assessment (PSSA) test results show that 73.3 percent of the school’s third-through-eighth-grade students were advanced or proficient in math and 65.7 percent were advanced or proficient in reading. This success marks an approximate 13.6 percent increase in performance, in both categories, as measured against last year’s results, and constitutes the third year in a row that the school has achieved Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) status.
 
Chester Community Charter School students’ test scores reflect a dramatic improvement against the school’s test scores in 2001, the first year in which the school began operating with students in grade levels eligible for state testing. Over the ten-year period ending in 2010, CCCS students’ math scores improved from 5 percent to 73.3 percent, advanced or proficient, while reading scores improved from 10 percent to 65.7 percent.
 
According to Dr. David E. Clark Jr., CCCS’ Chief Executive Officer, “CCCS is making a positive difference for this community, like no other school in Chester. We are truly meeting the challenges of educating our students at the highest level possible. Our scores on the Spring 2011 PSSA are the highest in the history of our school! Additionally, CCCS students in grades three through eight met 25 out of 25 targets, which included performance rates in math and reading; participation rates, and attendance rates. In order to make Adequate
Yearly Progress (AYP), CCCS had to meet all of the targets and we did it!”  
 
As an example, Clark pointed out that the, of the 177 students who participated in this year’s eighth-grade graduation ceremony on June 9, 2011, many will continue their secondary education at more than 20 of the region’s top private and charter high schools, including: Episcopal Academy, Archmere Academy, Cardinal O’Hara, Charter High School for Architecture and Design (CHAD), New Beginnings Academy, World Communication Charter, Milton Hershey School, Mastery Charter School, and Echoes Academy.
 
About Chester Community Charter School
Chester Community Charter School opened its doors on September 9, 1998, serving 97 students from its modest four meeting rooms in the lobby of Chester’s Howard Johnson Hotel.  Since that time, CCCS has steadily increased to over 3,000 students in ten state-of-the-art buildings.  Recently, CCCS provided personal laptop computers through the One Laptop per Child program to every student in grades 3 through 8.