Elementary · Delaware
Blades Elementary School
Free meals for allBlades Elementary School, a public elementary school in Blades, Delaware: grades k–2, 410 students, 16.4 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Seaford School District.
Size and class size
Compared with elementary schools of the same state and the whole country. Students per teacher counts every full-time-equivalent teacher, not the size of each class.
- Students
- 410
- Teachers (FTE)
- 25.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.4
- Grades
- K–2
- Elementary
More students per teacher than 86% of elementary schools in Delaware
Median 13.7 · 121 schools compared
More students per teacher than 69% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Smaller than 62% of elementary schools in Delaware
Median 459 · 122 schools compared
Smaller than 51% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–2
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Distant town
- Run by
- Seaford School District
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Seaford School District.
Location
- Address
- 900 South Arch Street, Blades, DE 19973
- Phone
- (302)629-4587
- City or town
- Blades
- County
- Sussex County
Nearby elementary schools
The closest public elementary schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Frederick Douglass Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 3–5 | 456 | 13.4 |
Seaford Central Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | 3–5 | 473 | 21.5 |
West Seaford Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–2 | 424 | 18.4 |
Sussex Montessori SchoolCharter | K–6 | 383 | 23.9 |
North Laurel Early Learning AcademyFree meals for all | Pre-K–K | 273 | 13.7 |
| 1–6 | 1,145 | 18.7 |
Sources
- Public schools and school districts (National Center for Education Statistics · U.S. Census Bureau), 2024–25 school year. NCES Common Core of Data and EDGE public school geocodes; U.S. Census Bureau, Annual Survey of School System Finances and cartographic boundary files (places).
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level.
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