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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...
Delaware's Hispanic Graduation Gap Nearly Doubled in Three Years
In Laurel, about two in three Hispanic seniors graduated in 2023. In the same town, nearly nine in 10 white seniors did. The 24.3 percentage-point gap between them is the widest in the state, three ti...
Delaware's English Learner Population Has Doubled in a Decade
In Sussex County, where poultry processing plants and agricultural operations line the coastal plain, the Laurel School District enrolled 199 English learners in 2014-15. One in 12 students. A decade ...
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...