Middle · Delaware
duPont (H.B.) Middle School
Free meals for allduPont (H.B.) Middle School, a public middle school in Hockessin, Delaware: grades 6–8, 764 students, 16.6 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Red Clay Consolidated School District.
Size and class size
Compared with middle 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
- 764
- Teachers (FTE)
- 46.0
- Students per teacher
- 16.6
- Grades
- 6–8
- Middle
More students per teacher than 57% of middle schools in Delaware
Median 14.9 · 40 schools compared
More students per teacher than 67% of middle schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 15,584 schools compared
Larger than 65% of middle schools in Delaware
Median 672 · 40 schools compared
Larger than 75% of middle schools in the US
Median 524 · 16,046 schools compared
State test results
Share of students scoring proficient or above on Delaware's tests, grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year.
Reading and writing
Delaware: 41%58%proficient
+1.8 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 88% of middle schools in Delaware
Median 38% · 40 middle schools compared
752 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Delaware: 34%48%proficient
+0.7 points from 2023–24 school year
A higher share proficient than 87% of middle schools in Delaware
Median 25% · 39 middle schools compared
753 students tested, grades 6, 7, 8 · Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Each state sets its own test and its own bar for “proficient”, so results compare only within a state. Results also follow family income closely: a school's share reflects its students' circumstances as much as its teaching.
Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository version 3.1. More information about these assessments over time, including participation and test changes, is available from the Education Data Center.
What it offers
- Grades
- Middle · Grades 6–8
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Red Clay Consolidated School District.
Location
- Address
- 735 Meeting House Road, Hockessin, DE 19707
- Phone
- (302)239-3420
- City or town
- Hockessin
- County
- New Castle County
Nearby middle schools
The closest public middle schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6–8 | 902 | 11.3 | |
Skyline Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 408 | 11.7 |
| 6–8 | 842 | 11.0 | |
duPont (Alexis I.) Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 455 | 13.0 |
Stanton Middle SchoolFree meals for all | 6–8 | 558 | 14.9 |
| 6–8 | 1,131 | 14.7 |
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).
- State Assessment Data Repository (Education Data Center), 2024–25 school year. Data sourced from the Education Data Center (www.eddatacenter.org), a partner project of the National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. State Assessment Data Repository v3.1.
Analisa does not rate schools. Figures are what a school has (students, teachers, programs), placed among schools of the same level; state test results are compared only within a state.
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