Best Middle Schools in Delaware for Special Education Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in Delaware!

Every year, the Delaware Department of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Special Education students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

Year after year, SchoolDigger is always the first to publish Delaware test scores and rankings. Other sites use stale test score data that are several years old! Be in the know with the very latest performance metrics.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the DeSSA and Smarter Balanced Assessments test scores by the Delaware Department of Education. The most recent update was on Monday, August 19, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2019)							Ranking (Special Education vs All Students - 2024)
ID	Rank (of 9)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Special Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Special Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
100001500112	1	Newark Charter School	Public, Charter, Alternative	K-12	200 McIntire Drive	Newark	19711	New Castle County	Newark Charter School	Yes	No	No	Yes	(302) 369-2001	2,987	177	16.8		1,612 (54.0%)	419 (14.0%)	223 (7.5%)	541 (18.1%)	6 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	186 (6.2%)	$12,033			$231			$13,047	88.9%	94.4%	5.56%
100017000037	2	Beacon Middle School	Public	6-8	19483 John J. Williams Highway	Lewes	19958	Sussex County	Cape Henlopen School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 645-6288	648	48	13.5		471 (72.7%)	51 (7.9%)	78 (12.0%)	13 (2.0%)	6 (0.9%)	1 (0.2%)	28 (4.3%)	$13,093			$391			$15,473	77.8%	90.7%	12.96%
100017000033	3	Mariner Middle School	Public	6-8	16391 Harbeson Rd	Milton	19968	Sussex County	Cape Henlopen School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 685-8516	664	47	14.1		381 (57.4%)	84 (12.7%)	157 (23.6%)	6 (0.9%)	4 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	32 (4.8%)	$14,284			$427			$16,887	66.7%	68.5%	1.85%
100068000245	4	Georgetown Middle School	Public	6-8	301 West Market Street	Georgetown	19947	Sussex County	Indian River School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 856-1900	885	60	14.7		207 (23.4%)	73 (8.2%)	571 (64.5%)	2 (0.2%)	3 (0.3%)	0 (0.0%)	29 (3.3%)	$13,441			$740			$15,091	55.6%	57.4%	1.85%
100008000222	5	Waters (Alfred G.) Middle School	Public	6-8	1235 Cedar Lane Road	Middletown	19709	New Castle County	Appoquinimink School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 449-3490	911	52	17.5		462 (50.7%)	182 (20.0%)	55 (6.0%)	183 (20.1%)	2 (0.2%)	1 (0.1%)	26 (2.9%)	$12,493			$190			$15,189	44.4%	87.0%	42.59%
100153000156	6	Seaford Middle School	Public	6-8	500 East Stein Highway	Seaford	19973	Sussex County	Seaford School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 629-4587	828	60	13.8		231 (27.9%)	287 (34.7%)	251 (30.3%)	2 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.1%)	56 (6.8%)	$12,500			$1,031			$12,174	33.3%	22.2%	11.11%
100130000269	7	duPont (H.B.) Middle School	Public	6-8	735 Meeting House Road	Hockessin	19707	New Castle County	Red Clay Consolidated School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 239-3420	754	48	15.7		409 (54.2%)	115 (15.3%)	155 (20.6%)	45 (6.0%)	3 (0.4%)	0 (0.0%)	27 (3.6%)	$14,489			$341			$17,689	22.2%	77.8%	55.56%
100068000087	8	Selbyville Middle School	Public	6-8	80 Bethany Rd.	Selbyville	19975	Sussex County	Indian River School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 436-1020	719	52	13.8		419 (58.3%)	78 (10.8%)	178 (24.8%)	8 (1.1%)	0 (0.0%)	3 (0.4%)	33 (4.6%)	$14,435			$755			$16,006	11.1%	75.9%	64.81%
100124000294	9	Talley Middle School	Public	6-8	1110 Cypress Road	Wilmington	19810	New Castle County	Brandywine School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 475-3976	841	65	12.9		326 (38.8%)	314 (37.3%)	86 (10.2%)	55 (6.5%)	6 (0.7%)	2 (0.2%)	52 (6.2%)	$17,969			$1,100			$21,616	0.0%	55.6%	55.56%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on Smarter Balanced Assessments English Language Arts, Smarter Balanced Assessments Mathematics, DeSSA Science, DeSSA Social Studies test scores released by the Delaware Department of Education.
These rankings were last updated on August 19, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the Delaware Department of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the Delaware Department of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Delaware Department of Education.