Tredyffrin/Easttown School District | |
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Address | |
940 West Valley Road, Suite 1700 , Chester , Pennsylvania , 19301United States | |
Coordinates | 40°04′11″N75°25′29″W / 40.069736°N 75.42471°W |
District information | |
Type | Public |
Motto | Inspiring the Future |
Grades | K-12 |
Established | January 1909 |
Superintendent | Dr. Richard Gusick |
Business administrator | Arthur J. McDonnell |
School board | 9 members |
Chair of the board | Todd Kantorczyk |
Governing agency | Pennsylvania Department of Education |
Schools | 8, including Conestoga High School |
Budget | $146,038,639 [1] |
NCES District ID | 4223640 [2] |
Students and staff | |
Enrollment | 7,059 |
Faculty | 489.2 (FTE) |
Staff | 218.5 |
Athletic conference | PIAA |
Colors | Maroon and Grey |
Other information | |
Website | tesd |
Tredyffrin/Easttown School District (T/E in short) is a school district based in Tredyffrin Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. [3]
T/E School District serves the townships of Tredyffrin Township and Easttown Township, and is one of the several school districts serving the Philadelphia Main Line. T/E serves all or portions of several communities wholly or partly in the two townships, including the following census-designated places: Berwyn, Chesterbrook, Devon, and Paoli (partial). [4] It also includes areas with Malvern and Wayne postal addresses that are outside of the borough and census-designated place. respectively. Additional unincorporated communities within T/E include all or part of Daylesford, Strafford, and Radnor.[ citation needed ] In the 2010-2011 school year, the school district had 6,323 enrolled students. [5]
In its most recent 2024 ranking, Niche.com ranked the T/E school district as the second best among 500 school districts in Pennsylvania. [6]
The school district was the epicenter of the Berwyn School Fight, a 1930s boycott and legal campaign by the local Black community to resist the school boards' attempt to segregate the schools by race. [7]
Tredyffrin/Easttown School District Administrators: [8] The superintendent of schools is Dr. Richard Gusick.
There is one high school, two middle schools, and five elementary schools in the Tredyffrin/Easttown School District. [9]
The school district has one high school, Conestoga High School, located in Tredyffrin Township.
The school district has two middle schools, both located in Tredyffrin Township:
There are two elementary schools in Easttown Township and three in Tredyffrin Township:
Devon Elementary School and New Eagle Elementary School are National Blue Ribbon Schools. [10]
Chesterbrook is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. It is located within the Philadelphia metropolitan area and just south of Valley Forge National Historical Park. The population was 4,589 at the 2010 census.
Devon-Berwyn was a census-designated place (CDP) in Chester County, Pennsylvania. The population was 5,067 at the 2000 census. For the 2010 census, the area was split into two separate CDPs, Devon and Berwyn. The area is part of the Philadelphia Main Line suburbs of Philadelphia.
Easttown Township is a township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 10,984 at the 2020 census. The township, which lies in the western half of Philadelphia's Main Line suburbs, comprises predominantly parts of two unincorporated areas: Devon and Berwyn. A small portion of the township has a Paoli address.
Paoli is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chester County near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It is situated in portions of two townships: Tredyffrin and Willistown. At the 2020 census, it had a total population of 6,002.
Tredyffrin Township is a township located in eastern Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 29,332 at the 2010 census.
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The Philadelphia Main Line, known simply as the Main Line, is an informally delineated historical and social region of suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Lying along the former Pennsylvania Railroad's once prestigious Main Line, it runs northwest from Center City Philadelphia parallel to Philadelphia and Lancaster Turnpike, also known as U.S. Route 30.
Berwyn is a census-designated place (CDP) in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. Berwyn is located in Tredyffrin and Easttown townships. The area is part of the Philadelphia Main Line suburbs.
Devon is a census-designated place (CDP) located in Easttown township in Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States. The population was 1,515 at the 2010 census. The area is part of the Philadelphia Main Line suburbs.
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Devon Preparatory School is a Catholic all-male college preparatory school in Tredyffrin Township, Pennsylvania, in the United States, with a Devon postal address. Founded in 1956 by Piarists, it is divided into a middle school and an upper school, both located on the same 20 acres (8.1 ha) campus. The school operates independently under the auspices of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Pennsylvania Route 252 is a north–south state highway in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania that connects PA 320 in Nether Providence Township at its southern terminus to PA 23 in Valley Forge at its northern terminus. The route runs through the western suburbs of Philadelphia in Delaware, Chester, and Montgomery counties, including Nether Providence Township, the borough of Media, Upper Providence Township, Marple Township, Newtown Township, Easttown Township, Tredyffrin Township, and Upper Merion Township. The route intersects many roads including U.S. Route 1 north of Media, PA 3 in Newtown Square, US 30 in Paoli, and US 202 near Berwyn.
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The Berwyn School Fight was a 1930s fight against school segregation in the southeastern Pennsylvania townships of Tredyffrin and Easttown. In 1932, local school districts attempted to segregate elementary schools by race. Black parents sued to stop the segregationists and withdrew their children from school until the school districts finally conceded defeat in 1934. Occurring 20 years before Brown v. Board of Education (1954) declared school segregation to be unconstitutional nationwide, the Berwyn School Fight was an early victory for the civil rights movement and an important moment in Chester County history.
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