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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...
Two Districts Where One in Three Boys Don't Graduate on Time
In Seaford, a former DuPont company town in inland Sussex County, roughly one in three boys does not finish high school in four years. The male graduation rate there is 67.7%. In Christina, the sprawl...
Delaware's Vo-Tech Districts Graduate 97%, Ten Points Above Traditional Schools
At POLYTECH, 98.1% of the class of 2023 walked across the stage with a diploma. At Christina, 25 miles north and serving the same state, just 73.2% did. The gap between those two numbers, nearly 25 pe...
Every Year, 2,000 Extra Freshmen Appear in Delaware
Look at Delaware's enrollment by grade and one bar sticks out like a fence post in a flat field. The state enrolled 11,504 students in 8th grade in 2024-25, then 13,633 in 9th grade: 2,129 more freshm...
Three in Four Delaware Districts Are Now Majority-Minority
A decade ago, fewer than half of Delaware's school districts enrolled a majority of students of color. By 2024-25, 30 of 39 did. The shift from 41.2% to 76.9% majority-minority districts between 2014-...