Chester Community Charter School

Chester Community Charter School
Location
302 East 5th Street, Chester, PA, 19013
Information
Type	Charter
Established	1998
Principal	Sharon Beah-Watkins, Karlen Burks, Melvyn Burroughs, Curtis Callands, Timeka Ford-Smith, Christine Matijasich, Donald Odom
Faculty	100
Grades	K–8
Enrollment	2,100
Color(s)	blue and gold
Mascot	lion
Information	[phone]
Founders	Vahan and Danielle Gureghian
CEO	Steven Lee
Website	Chester Community Charter

Chester Community Charter School [CCCS], also known as Chester Community Charter, is a charter school in Chester, Pennsylvania, serving the Chester-Upland School District. It describes itself as "dedicated to empowering students as learners through the development of a learning community".^[1] It was founded in 1998 by Vahan and Danielle Gureghian.

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.

In 2009, more than half of the city students honored by the annual mayoral academic awards came from CCCS.

Technology

CCCS have modern computer labs on each campus. In 2008, the school began providing their 3rd through 8th grade students with laptops (OLPC computers). The school provides students with internet access, via a pair of T1 lines, and the two campuses are connected by a high-bandwidth radio link. ^[1]

References

1. ^ ^{a b} "CCCS Overview". Official website. http://www.chestercommunitycharter.org/about.cfm. Retrieved 2010-06-13. ^{[dead link]}

External links

• Chester Community Charter Official Website