High · Delaware

First State Military Academy

Charter

First State Military Academy, a public high school in Clayton, Delaware: grades 9–12, 433 students, 18.0 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of First State Military Academy.

Size and class size

Compared with high 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: 433
Teachers (FTE): 24.0
Students per teacher: 18.0
Grades: 9–12; High

More students per teacher than 70% of high schools in Delaware

Median 15.5 · 40 schools compared

More students per teacher than 74% of high schools in the US

Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared

Smaller than 88% of high schools in Delaware

Median 1,027 · 41 schools compared

Larger than 51% of high schools in the US

Median 414 · 22,064 schools compared

State test results

No state test results published for this school: state tests cover grades 3–8, and small groups are not published.

What it offers

Grades: High · Grades 9–12
Type: Charter school · Regular
Instruction: In person
Area: Rural area near a city
Run by: First State Military Academy

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Location

Address: 355 West Duck Creek Road, Clayton, DE 19938
Phone: (302)223-2150
City or town: Clayton
County: Kent County

Website Quality of life in Clayton Schools in Clayton

Nearby high schools

The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.

School	Grades	Students	Students / teacher
Smyrna High School	9–12	1,777	17.8	0.7 mi
Early College School at Del StateCharter	7–12	583	24.3	8.3 mi
Odessa High School	9–12	1,254	15.0	10.0 mi
Dover High SchoolFree meals for all	9–12	1,812	20.5	10.1 mi
Middletown High School	9–12	1,231	15.4	11.2 mi
Appoquinimink High School	9–12	1,357	15.2	12.6 mi

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; state test results are compared only within a state.

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