Elementary · Delaware
Southern Elementary School
Free meals for allSouthern Elementary School, a public elementary school in New Castle, Delaware: grades k–5, 729 students, 12.8 students per teacher (2024–25 school year). Part of Colonial 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
- 729
- Teachers (FTE)
- 57.0
- Students per teacher
- 12.8
- Grades
- K–5
- Elementary
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of elementary schools in Delaware
Median 13.7 · 121 schools compared
Fewer students per teacher than 70% of elementary schools in the US
Median 14.6 · 50,575 schools compared
Larger than 90% of elementary schools in Delaware
Median 459 · 122 schools compared
Larger than 91% of elementary schools in the US
Median 415 · 51,933 schools compared
What it offers
- Grades
- Elementary · Grades K–5
- Type
- District school · Regular
- Instruction
- In person
- Meals
- Free breakfast and lunch for every student
- Area
- Rural area near a city
- 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
- 795 Cox Neck Road, New Castle, DE 19720
- Phone
- (302)832-6300
- County
- New Castle 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
Wilbur (Kathleen H.) ElementaryFree meals for all | K–5 | 1,052 | 15.9 |
| 1–5 | 492 | 15.4 | |
Leasure (May B.) Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 316 | 10.5 |
Oberle (William) Elementary SchoolFree meals for all | K–5 | 512 | 12.9 |
| K | 265 | 17.7 | |
| 1–5 | 634 | 15.9 |
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.
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