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School Finder

Narrow the federal record to the schools that match what you care about, then open any profile for the full picture. Filters run on NCES Common Core of Data; nothing leaves your browser beyond the search itself.

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How the School Finder works

Each filter maps directly to a field in the federal record, so a search is a precise query against the NCES Common Core of Data rather than an opinion ranking. Three things are worth knowing before you read the results:

  • Student-teacher ratio is enrollment divided by full-time-equivalent teachers, a staffing- intensity measure, not a direct count of students per classroom (it includes specialists and pull-out staff). The national median runs around 15 to 16 students per teacher, so a 12:1 filter surfaces the more generously staffed end of the distribution and a 25:1 filter is closer to the typical urban high school.
  • Free-lunch share is the proportion of students whose household income qualifies them for free meals, the standard proxy for economic need that federal Title I funding tracks; the national figure is near half of all public-school students, so a 75%-plus band isolates high-need campuses.
  • School type (charter, magnet, Title I) comes straight from the federal classification, not an editorial label.

The finder searches only schools that report staff data to NCES, so closed or stub listings are excluded, and it returns the largest matching schools first. A match is a starting point rather than a verdict: these figures describe the resources a school reports, not test scores or academic outcomes. Open any profile for the full context, and see our methodology for how every field is sourced, computed, and dated.

Top 100 of many matching schools

Many schools match. Showing the 100 largest. Add a state or tighter filters to narrow the list.

School Enrollment
Newark Charter School Newark, DE 3,109
Odyssey Charter School Wilmington, DE 2,286
Caesar Rodney High School Camden, DE 2,254
Penn (William) High School New Castle, DE 2,069
Sussex Central High School Georgetown, DE 2,012
Cape Henlopen High School Lewes, DE 1,889
Dover High School Dover, DE 1,812
Smyrna High School Smyrna, DE 1,777
Delcastle Technical High School Wilmington, DE 1,605
Las Americas Aspira Academy Newark, DE 1,471
Christiana High School Newark, DE 1,425
Mot Charter School Middletown, DE 1,407
Appoquinimink High School Middletown, DE 1,357
Sussex Technical High School Georgetown, DE 1,341
Milford Senior High School Milford, DE 1,271
Odessa High School Townsend, DE 1,254
Middletown High School Middletown, DE 1,231
Polytech High School Woodside, DE 1,228
St. Georges Technical High School Middletown, DE 1,198
Sussex Academy Georgetown, DE 1,182
Conrad Schools of Science Wilmington, DE 1,164
Laurel Elementary School Laurel, DE 1,145
Hodgson (Paul M.) Vocational Technical High School Newark, DE 1,104
Mount Pleasant High School Wilmington, DE 1,084
Indian River High School Dagsboro, DE 1,073
Wilbur (Kathleen H.) Elementary Bear, DE 1,052
Newark High School Newark, DE 1,039
Dickinson (John) School Wilmington, DE 1,027
Milford Central Academy Milford, DE 1,013
Smyrna Middle School Smyrna, DE 1,011
Concord High School Wilmington, DE 994
Charter School of Wilmington Wilmington, DE 977
Seaford Senior High School Seaford, DE 960
Lake Forest High School Felton, DE 951
Calloway (Cab) School of the Arts Wilmington, DE 941
Brandywine Springs School Wilmington, DE 941
Claymont Elementary School Claymont, DE 937
Waters (Alfred G.) Middle School Middletown, DE 935
Mckean (Thomas) High School Wilmington, DE 920
Academia Antonia Alonso Newark, DE 910
Glasgow High School Newark, DE 908
Chipman (W.T.) Middle School Harrington, DE 905
Howard High School of Technology Wilmington, DE 905
Talley Middle School Wilmington, DE 900
Brandywine High School Wilmington, DE 897
Meredith (Everett) Middle School Middletown, DE 867
Georgetown Middle School Georgetown, DE 861
Central Middle School Dover, DE 860
Cantwells Bridge Middle School Townsend, DE 852
Bedford (Gunning) Middle School New Castle, DE 846
Fred Fifer Iii Middle School Camden, DE 839
Georgetown Elementary School Georgetown, DE 825
East Millsboro Elementary School Millsboro, DE 820
Seaford Middle School Seaford, DE 800
Charter School of New Castle New Castle, DE 788
Springer Middle School Wilmington, DE 776
Selbyville Middle School Selbyville, DE 770
Providence Creek Academy Charter School Clayton, DE 769
Old State Elementary School Townsend, DE 765
Dupont (H.B.) Middle School Hockessin, DE 764
Shue-Medill Middle School Newark, DE 763
North Georgetown Elementary School Georgetown, DE 754
Laurel Senior High School Laurel, DE 753
Delmar Middle School Delmar, DE 732
Dupont (Pierre S.) Middle School Wilmington, DE 730
Southern Elementary School New Castle, DE 729
Woodbridge High School Greenwood, DE 728
Millsboro Middle School Millsboro, DE 726
Delmar High School Delmar, DE 713
Long Neck Elementary School Millsboro, DE 712
Ross (Lulu M.) Elementary School Milford, DE 693
Gauger-Cobbs Middle School Newark, DE 681
Mount Pleasant Elementary School Wilmington, DE 674
Read (George) Middle School New Castle, DE 662
First State Montessori Academy Wilmington, DE 657
F. Niel Postlethwait Middle School Camden, DE 647
Phillis Wheatley Elementary School Bridgeville, DE 644
Moore (John Bassett) School Smyrna, DE 638
Cedar Lane Elementary School Middletown, DE 634
Lewes Elementary School Lewes, DE 620
The Bancroft School Wilmington, DE 616
Mccullough (Calvin R. ) Middle School New Castle, DE 615
William F. Cooke Jr. Elementary Hockessin, DE 613
Kirk (George V.) Middle School Newark, DE 612
Woodbridge Early Childhood Education Center Greenwood, DE 609
Lake Forest Central Elementary School Felton, DE 604
Woodbridge Middle School Bridgeville, DE 596
Kuumba Academy Charter School Wilmington, DE 594
North Star Elementary School Hockessin, DE 589
Early College School at Del State Dover, DE 583
Milton Elementary School Milton, DE 582
South Dover Elementary School Dover, DE 577
The Bayard School Wilmington, DE 571
Mispillion Elementary Milford, DE 568
Bunker Hill Elementary School Middletown, DE 566
Stanton Middle School Wilmington, DE 558
Edison (Thomas a.) Charter School Wilmington, DE 557
Rehoboth Elementary School Rehoboth Beach, DE 557
Lord Baltimore Elementary School Ocean View, DE 557
North Smyrna Elementary School Smyrna, DE 557

Source: NCES Common Core of Data Public School Universe + Civil Rights Data Collection · 2024-25