First State Education Coverage, Driven by Data
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Delaware's chronic absenteeism rate fell from 25.7% in 2022 to 17.1% in 2025, but the 14.7-point gap for students who are economically disadvantaged has persisted.
Delaware's three vo-tech districts have graduated above 95% for nine straight years, a 10-point edge that holds across student subgroups.
Black students in Delaware are chronically absent at 20.3%, down from a 31.3% peak but still 6.3 pp above white peers. The gap is 0.8 pp wider than 2019.
Red Clay graduates 92% of students. Christina, sharing Wilmington, graduates 73%. The Redding Consortium voted to merge them into one district.
Capital School District has the highest chronic absenteeism rate of any traditional district in Delaware at 26.1%, nearly double the state average.
The white-Hispanic graduation gap shrank to 5 points by 2019. By 2022 it had ballooned to 9.6 points. Sussex County districts show gaps exceeding 20 points.
Colonial's 24.9% chronic absenteeism rate leads NCC peers, sitting 7.7 points above Delaware's average despite a 12.9-point drop from its 2022 peak.
Christina School District's 73.2% graduation rate is Delaware's lowest by a full percentage point, and the gap to the state runs deeper than the headline.
Nearly 45% of Delaware's 3,946 students who are currently homeless were chronically absent in 2024-25, 2.6 times the statewide rate. The gap is closing but 1,772 students still miss too much school.
Delaware's four-year graduation rate reached 88.9% for the class of 2023, its highest ever, but the state has never crossed 90%. The DOE wants 91% by 2028.
Delaware cut chronic absenteeism from 25.7% to 17.1% in three years, with each year's improvement larger than the last.
Brandywine, Christina, Colonial, and Red Clay lost 6,476 students combined while the rest of Delaware grew 20.3%. The Redding Consortium voted to merge them.
15 of 41 Delaware districts set enrollment records in 2024-25 while only 3 hit lows. Sussex County growth and charter expansion drive the rare ratio.
Delaware's only Greek immersion charter has grown 150% over 10 consecutive years, becoming the state's most racially diverse district in the process.
Christina's special education share reached 29.5% in 2024-25 as total enrollment fell 21.8% over the decade; the counts measure composition, not individual transfers.
