Lake Forest
Seaford's Graduation Rate Has Fallen 5.8 Points. No Other Delaware District Dropped.
At Seaford Senior High School, the class of 2023 walked across the stage with a 74.0% four-year graduation rate. That number sits 14.9 percentage points below the Delaware average. But the aggregate m...
Only 8 of 35 Districts Beat Their Pre-COVID Absence Rates
Smyrna School District, in the heart of Kent County, has posted a chronic absenteeism rate below the state average every year for a decade. Its 2025 rate of 12.1% is among the lowest of any traditiona...
Lake Forest Crossed 90%. No District Gained More.
In 2019, Lake Forest School District graduated 78.3% of its senior class. That was a crisis number, 10 points below the Delaware state average, the worst rate Lake Forest had posted in the data window...
Seaford Cut Chronic Absenteeism by 21 Points in Three Years
In 2021-22, more than half the students at Seaford Senior High School were chronically absent. The 52.6% rate meant that in a building of 981 teenagers, 516 were missing at least 18 school days per ye...
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....
Delaware's Special Education Rate Hits 22%, Seven Points Above the Nation
Delaware added 11,546 public school students over the past decade. It added 11,728 students with Individualized Education Programs. The entire net enrollment gain, and then some, came from special edu...