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Maryann Nazareth, a student at Downingtown STEM Academy, has earned a National Merit Corporate Scholarship, making her one of the most elite scholars in the…
While some counties in the Northeast have experienced a population decrease in the past year according to recent Census data, there are still plenty of…
Seven Chester County public high schools found their place among the top 50 in Pennsylvania for 2024, according to a new ranking recently released by…
Widener University, in partnership with NBC10 and Telemundo62, announced the winners of the 13th annual Widener University High School Leadership Awards.
The awards recognize high…
Sophie Fontecchio, a Downingtown STEM Academy student, is a longtime volunteer who started her own nonprofit to help those who need it the most, writes…
Five Chester County high schools are in the top 20 in The Keystone State, according to the 2023-2024 Best High Schools list from U…
Chester County high schools made the Niche list of the 2023 Best Public High Schools in the Philadelphia Area. The ranking was based on an…
Citadel Credit Union has recognized 31 teachers in Greater Philadelphia for going above and beyond and truly “building strength in education.” The company has awarded…
Caitlin Coker, who played at Downingtown West and attended Downingtown STEM Academy, has made a name for herself at Boston University, writes Isabella DiAmore for…
The Green Family Foundation and Firstrust Bank recently awarded 24 high school seniors from Greater Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley with $365,000 in college…
Widener University, in partnership with NBC10 and Telemundo62, has named the winners of the 12th annual Widener University High School Leadership Awards.
The awards recognize…
Downingtown STEM Academy junior Sophie Fontecchio started her nonprofit, Let’s Bake the World A Better Place, in August 2021. Her mission is to engage…
A senior at Downingtown STEM Academy is using his experience with hearing loss to help others. In addition to being a full-time student, Yaduraj…
Seven Chester County public high schools are among the top 50 in Pennsylvania for 2022, according to a new ranking recently released by Niche.
To…
More than 100 students from around Chester County were named National Merit Semifinalists and have the chance to become National Merit Scholars, writes Kristen A…
Six Chester County schools are among the 40 top-rated high schools in Philadelphia and the suburbs, according to a new ranking by Philadelphia Magazine…
Chester County is home to four of U.S. News & World Report’s 20 Best Public High Schools in Greater Philadelphia — which includes southern…
Editor’s Note: VISTA Today originally published this profile of Guy Fardone on May 8, 2015. Fardone, who stepped down from his role at Wayne…
High school seniors from the Greater Philadelphia and Lehigh Valley region were recognized this week by the Green Family Foundation and Firstrust Bank at the…
Some local teens have a rare theatrical opportunity usually only reserved for professional actors. Students from 11 area middle and high schools are ready to…
Chester County is home to two of the 100 Best Public High Schools in America, according to new rankings by Stacker.
Stacker’s rankings are…
Ajay Macherla, a senior at Downingtown STEM Academy, is the author of a new self-help book for high-schoolers. Matteo Iadonisi covered the guide…
Chester County is home to seven of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 public high schools for 2022, according to new rankings recently released by Niche.com…
In Pennsylvania, public education doesn’t get any better than it is here in Chester County, as we ranked No. 1 among the state’s…
Elaine Ficarra, a Downingtown STEM Academy graduate, has taken home the title of Miss Philadelphia. Her win comes during the competition’s centennial anniversary, writes…
Chester County is home to nine of the 50 Best High Schools in Pennsylvania, including No. 2, according to new rankings from U.S. News…
Anyone who wants to start a business should watch budding entrepreneurs pitch their ideas in the annual Business Idea Competition hosted by West Chester University…
Chester County is home to nine of the 50 Best Public High Schools in Pennsylvania for 2021, according to new rankings recently published by Niche…
The first Eagle Scouts in Chester County date back more than 100 years, to May 1918, and to date, just 6,845 Scouts have had…
Chester County is home to seven of the 40 Top-Rated Public High Schools in Philadelphia and the Suburbs, according to a recently published list…
Just days after industries across Pennsylvania entered the yellow phase of reopening, a pair of schools represented Chester County and Delaware County in a statewide…
Chester County is home to eight of Pennsylvania’s Top 50 public high schools, according to new rankings published by U.S. News & World…
With the state and national focus on reviving the manufacturing industry in America, students from 12 local schools from across Chester County and Delaware County…
The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently published the results of the 2019 SATs, showing that Chester County is home to 13 of the state’s…
Thirteen high schools in Chester County are among the 100 best in Pennsylvania for 2020, according to new rankings released by Niche.com.
To determine…
Stacy Martin, the Director of Commercial Sales and Leasing for Hankin Group, has been elected as President for the PA/NJ/DE Chapter of the…
The Downingtown Area School District’s Blue and Gold Marching Band has been selected as one of the 20 bands that will take to the…
Renaissance Academy Charter School in Phoenixville ranked fourth in the Philadelphia area according to how well its students did on the 2019 Keystone Exams with…
On October 4, National Manufacturing Day, students from West Chester Area School District, the Downingtown STEM Academy, Octorara Area High School, the Technical College High…
Chester County is home to six of the 40 Best Public High Schools in Philadelphia and the Suburbs, according to a new report by Philadelphia…
Ben Doyle, a rising senior at Downingtown STEM Academy who swims scholastically for Downingtown East and on the club circuit for the Upper Main Line…
The Chester County Intermediate Unit Board of Directors has appointed Dr. George Fiore as the CCIU’s next executive director.
“We are turning a new…
U.S. News & World Report analyzed data on more than 23,000 public high schools in 50 states and the District of Columbia and…
Chester County placed all 20 of its public high schools among the five-county region’s 100 highest-scoring public high schools on the SATs…
Publisher’s Note: This February 14th story drew 10,739 visitors.
The Downingtown STEM Academy ranks second in Pennsylvania among public high schools with the…
Chester County is home to nine of the state’s 100 highest-scoring high schools on the 2018 Keystone Exams, writes Ethan Lott for The…
Almost 80 people recently gathered to celebrate the official opening of the new Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Wing at Delaware County Community College…
By Leslie Rylke
During the summer of 2014, Tracey Oberholtzer began thinking about going back to work full time. Her son, Kyle, would be heading…
Abigail “Abbey” Johnson, a student at Downingtown STEM Academy, has received the Girl Scout Gold Award for establishing a volunteer fair at school, writes Ginger…
Nine high schools in Chester County are among the Top 50 public high schools in Pennsylvania for 2019, according to a list recently published by…
Five students have been chosen to receive college scholarships from Benchmark Federal Credit Union, which awards $15,000 annually to local students.
The high school…
Four high schools in Chester County rank among the Top 20 best schools for STEM in the Philadelphia area, writes Clara Lefton for the Philadelphia…
March of Dimes has officially announced the individuals who will be honored in the fields of health, business, and public service at its 2018 Chester…
U.S. News and World Report has released its 2018 List of the Best High Schools in Pennsylvania, and Downingtown STEM Academy has supplanted Philadelphia…
Nate Stone, an 18-year-old senior at the Downingtown STEM Academy, has won VISTA Today’s free NCAA Tournament Challenge presented by BB&…
Highlights of yesterday’s Girl’s Exploring Tomorrow’s Technology (GETT) event in Phoenixville…
Michelle Legaspi Sanchez, the executive director of the Chester County Fund for Women and Girls, recently visited WHYY to discuss one of the nonprofit’s…
The Downingtown Area School District and Chester County Intermediate Unit teamed up this year to host Downingtown Educational Technology Conference (DETC17), with the theme of…
The Downingtown STEM Academy ranks second among high schools in Greater Philadelphia with the highest percentage of students scoring advanced on the Keystone Exams, according…
Downingtown’s Juliet Lubwama, one of five winners of the National Student Poet of the Year for 2017, is using her voice and talent to…
Juliet Lubwama, a student at the Downingtown STEM Academy, has been named one of this year’s five National Student Poets, writes Sandy Hingston for…
Leslie Rylke, Marketing and Creative Services Manager at the Chester County Economic Development Council (CCEDC) has a few reasons to celebrate this summer. Not only…
Conestoga High School once again topped the latest public high school rankings for the state of Pennsylvania, while Chester County claimed three schools in the…
A handful of Chester County high schools rank among the Top 25 public high schools for STEM education in Pennsylvania, with Downingtown STEM Academy occupying…
Sometimes a good challenge is all it takes to push students to achieve their full potential, and in Chester County, that’s happening the most…
The Pennsylvania Department of Education recently published the average SAT scores for every public high school in the state.
The newly released data is for…
Chester County’s future doctors, engineers, mathematicians, and scientists recently took the stage for the 2017 Chester County Science Research Competition Awards Ceremony.
They were…
While politicians debate whether the Keystone Exams should be part of high school graduation requirements, the tests continue to measure students’ proficiency in three core…
Exton’s West Pharmaceutical Services has announced that Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Officer Karen Flynn has won a Silver Stevie Award in the…
The world is just waiting for solutions, and Downingtown STEM Academy graduate Pranav Ranganathan can’t help but pursue them.
According to a Penn State…
Last week, the Pennsylvania Department of Education released School Performance Profile scores that measure the academic progress of 2,860 public schools across the state…
Health Care Connect (HCC) is a program, managed out of the Chester County Economic Development Council, that was formed to address the workforce needs of…
Students from seven Chester County schools are once again sitting at the front of the class when it comes to being ready to face the…
Here’s what’s happening on Monday and Tuesday in Chester County Datebook.
On Monday, the Downingtown STEM Academy will hold a “FORE the Kids…
Briefs are concise reports on what’s happening around Chester County. This Morning:
Three Chesco High Schools in Top 5 of State SAT Scores
The…
Young video editing enthusiasts from Chester County should get ready for action, as the Manufacturing Alliance of Chester and Delaware Counties is holding a video…
The county’s two-time top performer among Pennsylvania schools failed to deliver the knockout punch this past spring, but Downingtown STEM Academy still managed…
Chester County Datebook has the following events happening on Monday and Tuesday:
The Eagles take on the Giants Monday evening at The Linc beginning at…
Tired of worrying about whether your kids will miss their school bus every morning? There’s an app for that. And this fall parents in…
Chester County Daily News Business Briefs reviews stories important to Chester County and beyond.
Michael Chain named to Philadelphia Business Journal’s Annual 40 Under…
Outranking every other high school in the state this year in challenging students to take advanced national and international tests was the Downingtown STEM Academy…
Chester County Daily News Business Briefs are short summaries and links to important Chester County’s business stories not included in VISTA Today’s daily…
Six Chester County high schools made the list of Pennsylvania’s top 50 high schools as ranked by 2014 SAT scores.
The county high school…
A new local leader has taken the reins of nearly $1 billion in annual sales revenue for the largest business unit of Exton’s West…
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