Other · Delaware
First State School
AlternativeFirst State School, a public other school in Wilmington, Delaware: grades 1–11, 21 students, 3.5 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Red Clay Consolidated School District.
Size and class size
Compared with 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
- 21
- Teachers (FTE)
- 6.0
- Students per teacher
- 3.5
- Grades
- 1–11
- Other
Fewer students per teacher than 88% of schools in Delaware
Median 10.8 · 16 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 94% of schools in the US
Median 12.7 · 3,627 schools compared
Smaller than 94% of schools in Delaware
Median 380 · 18 schools compared
Smaller than 89% of schools in the US
Median 207 · 3,982 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%Not published: too few students tested.
Smarter Balanced Summative Assessment; proficient means Levels 3-4
Math
Delaware: 34%Not published: too few students tested.
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
- Other · Grades 1–11
- Type
- District school · Alternative
- Instruction
- In person
- Area
- Small city
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Red Clay Consolidated School District.
Location
- Address
- 501 West 14th Street, Wilmington, DE 19899
- Phone
- (302)320-5848
- City or town
- Wilmington
- County
- New Castle County
Nearby schools
The closest public schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher | Reading | Math |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Douglass SchoolSpecial educationFree meals for all | 1–12 | 119 | — | — | — |
Odyssey Charter SchoolCharter | K–12 | 2,286 | 12.7 | 47% | 42% |
Richardson Park Learning CenterSpecial education | — | — | — | — | — |
Mount Pleasant Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–12 | 674 | 13.4 | 36% | 35% |
Leach (John G.) SchoolSpecial educationFree meals for all | Pre-K–12 | 95 | 6.3 | — | — |
| — | — | — | — | — |
Reading and Math: share of tested students proficient or above on the state's own tests (grades 3–8, 2024–25 school year). Compare only within a state.
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.
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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