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Old 12-06-2012, 08:06 AM
 
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Hi and thanks for taking the time to answer my question. We are moving to the Chester county area. After doing lots of research and taking 3 trips to visiting the area we decided we like the unionville chadds ford school district. We have been looking at houses in west Chester, kennett square and chadds ford that feed into that district. However I found a house I can see myself in but it is zoned for west Chester schools rather than unionville chadds ford. I know test scores are not everything. In fact I feel the school my child currently attends focuses too much on the state test to stay in the top rankings, often at the cost of classroom learning. So I am looking for insider information. I have visited greatschool.org and read all the reviews offered there. Can anyone here tell me the real scoop beyond the test data? Thanks again for taking the time to respond.
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Old 12-06-2012, 08:26 AM
 
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I really dont know the reasoning's begind the test scores, but Chadds Ford-Unionville is without question the best district of the 3. I would say mostly because of the socioeconomic of the area. Chadds Ford is a lot of new wealthy families which of course goes along with top schools. West Chester area is also that, but there is more of a mix of people due to the downtown area that west chester, and Henderson serves downtown west chester. There is also West Chester East and Rustin High schools that dont serve downtown so they might even be higher performing than henderson, Im not sure.

Lastly, Kennet has quite a mix of kids. Until that last decade or so, Kennet was very rural poor farm country, lately it has been becoming built up into suburbia. But I dont think kennett schools are on par with chadds ford at all, plus I always hear complaints that Kennet is far away from everything really. So I think you would be pleased with either Chadds Ford or West Chester.
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Old 01-11-2013, 05:50 PM
 
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Thank you! We decided on the house zoned for unionville high. Hopefully I can update in a year and say it was the right choice.
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