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1 in 2: Delaware's Homeless Students and the Attendance Crisis
At the Hope Center in New Castle County, Delaware's largest family shelter, more than half of the 300-plus residents are children. They sleep in converted hotel rooms, ride buses to schools across the...
Delaware Hits an All-Time High 88.9% Graduation Rate. The 90% Line Is Still 1.1 Points Away.
For the class of 2023, 88.9% of Delaware's public high school students earned a diploma within four years. That is the highest four-year adjusted cohort graduation rate the state has ever recorded, 4....
One in Five Delaware Students Is Now Hispanic
In 2015, about one in six Delaware public school students was Hispanic. By 2025, it was one in five. That shift, from 21,480 to 31,113 students, represents a 44.8% increase and the addition of 9,633 s...