Chester, WV schools
1 public, charter and private school in Chester. Search by name or narrow by level, type.
Chester’s School Grade: A
The public schools Chester’s kids attend, from kindergarten through graduation, outperform 93% of West Virginia’s districts on state tests and graduation. Among towns with similar incomes, they rank near the top.
How the School Grade works
- Results, not inputs. Math and reading proficiency on West Virginia’s state tests, each against the state average, plus the four-year graduation rate. Spending and class size are shown below but don’t count toward the grade. Tests: 2020–21; graduation: class of 2020.
- The whole path. A town’s grade follows its kids: every district that serves it, weighted by the number of students tested in each. Tests count 60% and graduation 40%.
- Graded within the state. Each state writes its own tests, so districts are lined up against the rest of West Virginia only. A+ top 5%A next 10%A- next 10%B B+ to B−, next 30%C C+ to C−, next 30%D D and D−, bottom 15%
- Individual schools are graded the same way on their own test results, against every public school in West Virginia with 25+ students. Private schools aren’t graded: they don’t take the state tests.
- What a grade can’t tell you. Test results track family income closely, so a high grade partly reflects who lives in a town. That’s why we also compare towns with similar incomes. Visit, ask other parents, and read neighbor reviews. It’s our own summary of U.S. Department of Education data, not an official rating.
State test results
95% graduate on time
The share of students who started ninth grade together and earned a regular diploma within four years.
The district serving Chester
Each district’s own page has its spending, test scores, enrollment and every school.
Colleges near Chester
There’s no college in Chester, but 14 colleges are within 30 miles. The closest is Kent State University at East Liverpool in East Liverpool, 0.8 miles away.
4 more within 30 miles.
Straight-line distance from the center of Chester. Degree-granting colleges with students on campus. Colleges marked › have their own page; the others are too small or don’t report enough to the Department of Education for one.
All 1 school in Chester
School data from the U.S. Department of Education (NCES). Ratings are from neighbors on TownTapestry.