Lake Forest
Seaford's Graduation Rate Fell 5.8 Points, Delaware's Steepest District Decline
Correction (July 21, 2026): The original headline said no other Delaware district had declined. The complete package-backed panel shows four districts finished 2023 below their 2015 rates. The article...
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 Geographic District Gained More.
In 2019, Lake Forest School District reported a four-year graduation rate of 78.3%, its lowest rate in the historical records examined here. It trailed Delaware's published state rate by 10.0 percenta...
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...