Unionville-Chadds Ford School District (UCFSD) is a school district in southeastern
Chester County Chester County may refer to:
* Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
* Chester County, South Carolina, United States
* Chester County, Tennessee
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and western
Delaware County,
Pennsylvania
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, a area encompassing seven townships and serving a total of abpproximately 4,000 students.
The district is located in a fairly wealthy suburb of
Philadelphia
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, the nation's sixth most-populous city, and
Wilmington, Delaware
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. The district's budget, primarily obtained through property taxes, is approximately three times larger than the Pennsylvania average, at $53,902,000, equating to $12,877 spent by the district per student per year.
Schools
*
Unionville High School
*Charles F. Patton Middle School
*Unionville Elementary School
*Hillendale Elementary School
*Pocopson Elementary School
*Chadds Ford Elementary School
Demographics
*White: 79.42%
*Asian: 12.93%
*Hispanic: 4.39%
*Black: 0.72%
*Native American: 0.05%
UCFSD has a significantly higher percent of White and Asian students and significantly lower percent of Black and Hispanic students than the Pennsylvania average.
[
*Male: 50.8%
*Female: 49.2%][
]
District administration
The district's offices are located in Unionville High School in Kennett Square
Kennett Square is a borough in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is known as the Mushroom Capital of the World because mushroom farming in the region produces over 500 million pounds of mushrooms a year, totaling half of the United ...
. The current administration is as follows:http://www.ucfsd.org/contact.html
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References
External links
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School districts in Chester County, Pennsylvania
School districts in Delaware County, Pennsylvania
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