NCES CCD 2024-25 7 schools DE

Best-Resourced Schools in Seaford, DE

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7 public K-12 schools in Seaford from NCES Common Core of Data: enrollment, grade span, demographics, and Civil Rights Data Collection statistics for every active campus.

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7
Schools
3,553
Students
36.7/100
Avg Resource Index
16.3:1
Avg Student-Teacher Ratio

National city placement

Middle-of-corpus city profile

According to NCES CCD 2024-25, Seaford has more public-school enrollment than 37% of the 4,487 US cities in this directory. Seaford sits in the broad middle of the national city distribution rather than at a single obvious extreme. Its scale, average Resource Investment Index, and staffing position need to be read together: a middle placement on one measure does not cancel a stronger or weaker result on another. The percentile panel makes those dimensions explicit, and the school table shows where the city aggregate breaks into materially different campus profiles.

The school portfolio is elementary-weighted

4 of Seaford's 7 listed schools are elementary campuses. That composition means citywide enrollment and staffing averages are influenced more by early-grade operating patterns than by the city's 1 middle and 1 high-school records. Families comparing later grades should rely on those individual rows rather than the all-school mean.

A small portfolio contains radically different campus scales

Seaford lists only 7 schools, yet reported enrollment runs from 57 to 960 students, a 17-fold range. In a portfolio this compact, the smallest record may be a specialized or nonstandard setting rather than a miniature version of the largest campus. That distinction affects how ratios and program fields should be read. Compare similarly configured grade levels first; combining the extremes into one city average conceals more than it explains.

City enrollment
Top 63%
School count
Top 65%
Resource Index average
32nd percentile
Teacher staffing
40th percentile

Seaford Senior High School accounts for 27.0% of all Seaford public-school enrollment

That dominant concentration means Seaford-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the largest entity. Grade level: High. The share measures enrollment concentration only; it does not establish how districts allocate programs, capital, or staff. Enrollment-weighted aggregates give this entity more weight than any smaller peer, while an unweighted entity average treats every record equally.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Seaford school enrollment varies 17× across entities

Seaford school enrollment ranges from 57 students (lowest) to 960 students (highest), a spread of 903 students. That spread reflects typical urban portfolio variation between specialty programs and large neighbourhood schools. Per-school staffing and program breadth can differ sharply at opposite ends of that enrollment range, so the city average should not be treated as a typical campus.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

Seaford student-teacher ratio is 16.3:1 — near the typical range (US average ~15.7) — citywide staffing is neither unusually lean nor unusually crowded by this measure

student-teacher ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE classroom teachers against total enrollment, push-in specialists, English-language aides, special-education co-teachers, and counselors are not included in most reporting Variation between sub-units within Seaford is typically wider than the Seaford-aggregate figure suggests.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data, Public School Universe

1 of Seaford's 7 listed schools are charters

14% of the city's listed public-school campuses are reported as charter schools in NCES CCD. Charter status identifies a different governance arrangement; it does not establish admissions availability, academic quality, or the share of city students enrolled in those campuses. Open each school record to compare enrollment and staffing directly.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data

# School Score
1. Seaford Central Elementary School 58
2. Frederick Douglass Elementary School 46
3. West Seaford Elementary School 39
4. Sussex Montessori School 37
5. Seaford Middle School 26
6. Seaford Senior High School 14
7. Sussex Orthopedic Program -

Most racially and ethnically mixed schools in Seaford

Ranked by the Simpson student-body diversity index (0-100) from NCES race and ethnicity data, where higher means a more evenly mixed student body. It measures mix, not quality.

  1. 1 Seaford Central Elementary School 71.3/100
  2. 2 Frederick Douglass Elementary School 71.3/100
  3. 3 West Seaford Elementary School 71.0/100
  4. 4 Sussex Orthopedic Program 70.8/100
  5. 5 Seaford Middle School 69.8/100

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Which Seaford school has the highest Resource Investment Index? ▼

Seaford Central Elementary School has the highest Resource Investment Index among the Seaford schools in this federal-data comparison at 58/100. The index summarizes reported staffing, counseling, gifted-program, and attendance inputs; it is not an academic rating.

How many schools are in Seaford, DE? ▼

Seaford has 7 public schools with a total enrollment of 3,553 students. 1 are charter schools. Average student-teacher ratio: 16.3:1.

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Data from NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 and Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC) 2021-22. The Resource Investment Index uses reported student-teacher ratio, counselor access, gifted programs, and attendance; it is not an academic rating. Cities must include at least five schools to be listed. This public-data comparison is for informational purposes: verify current enrollment, attendance boundaries, and programs with the school district before acting. See the guide to understanding NCES data.