Chester Charter School for the Arts has hit an academic high note as the top-performing school in Delaware County’s poorest community with their move from a rental space in an industrial park to a venue that will bring more success for their students. Chester Charter School for the Arts (CCSA) has 500 students in grades K-9 and 56 staff. Administrators say the move should enable the school to become a full K-12 by 2018, with 750 eventually enrolled. According to plan, a state-of-the-art, 90,000-square-foot building with dance studios, a band room, and a kiln will rise from the vacant lot on Highland Avenue by the fall of 2017.That’s no small achievement for a charter school that once had to fight for its existence. It started in 2008 as a public-private partnership between the school district and John Alston, a Swarthmore College professor and director of the 140-voice Chester Children’s Chorus.
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