High · Delaware
Penn (William) High School
Free meals for allPenn (William) High School, a public high school in New Castle, Delaware: grades 9–12, 2,069 students, 17.7 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Colonial School District.
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
- 2,069
- Teachers (FTE)
- 117.0
- Students per teacher
- 17.7
- Grades
- 9–12
- High
More students per teacher than 63% of high schools in Delaware
Median 15.5 · 40 schools compared
More students per teacher than 72% of high schools in the US
Median 14.4 · 20,809 schools compared
Larger than 95% of high schools in Delaware
Median 1,027 · 41 schools compared
Larger than 94% 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
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Large suburb
- Run by
- Colonial School District
Which school a home is assigned to is decided by the district's attendance zones; check with Colonial School District.
Location
- Address
- 713 East Basin Road, New Castle, DE 19720
- Phone
- (302)323-2800
- County
- New Castle County
Nearby high schools
The closest public high schools by straight-line distance. Attendance zones are set by each district.
| School | Grades | Students | Students / teacher |
|---|---|---|---|
Delaware Military AcademyCharter | 9–12 | 547 | 14.8 |
| 9–12 | 483 | 10.8 | |
| 6–12 | 1,164 | 18.2 | |
Delcastle Technical High SchoolCareer and technical | 9–12 | 1,605 | 13.6 |
Howard High School of TechnologyCareer and technical | 9–12 | 905 | 15.7 |
Great Oaks Charter SchoolCharterFree meals for all | 9–12 | 149 | 14.9 |
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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