A hatchback packed with boxes, a lamp and a potted plant, parked in a driveway before the drive to school.

West Chester, Pennsylvania

We fund one student a year to go find perspective, opportunity, a wider view, and their footing.

The Open Road Foundation helps West Chester Area School District students afford the school that fits them best, wherever it takes them.

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The need here is easy to miss.

Here, in this district

1 in 8

Median household income in the West Chester Area School District is $137,133. That is exactly why the need goes unseen. About one in eight of the district's 12,042 students is economically disadvantaged.

U.S. Census ACS 2024; NCES Common Core of Data, 2024–25.

Some roads are worth leaving home for.

We're a scholarship fund in West Chester. We raise money from people who live here and put it toward the cost of college for a student who has been accepted somewhere they can't quite afford. Read the full mission

Open the road, and see what comes back.

One student, this year. That's the whole goal, and it's reachable.

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The need here is easy to miss.

Some roads are worth leaving home for.

Open the road, and see what comes back.

We fund one student a year to go find perspective, opportunity, a wider view, and their footing.