Best Elementary Schools in Delaware for General 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, General 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 (General Education vs All Students - 2024)					ID
Rank (of 17)	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 (General Education)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (General Education)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)	ID
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	3,047	184	16.5		1,631 (53.5%)	441 (14.5%)	227 (7.4%)	548 (18.0%)	6 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	194 (6.4%)	$12,033			$231			$13,047	94.1%	99.1%	4.94%			100001500112
2	Lord Baltimore Elementary School	Public	K-5	120 Atlantic Avenue	Ocean View	19970	Sussex County	Indian River School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 537-2700	566	44	12.8		467 (82.5%)	22 (3.9%)	44 (7.8%)	3 (0.5%)	1 (0.2%)	1 (0.2%)	28 (4.9%)	$12,739			$632			$14,772	88.2%	91.5%	3.27%			100068000086
3	Love Creek Elementary School	Public	K-5	19488 John J. Williams Hwy	Lewes	19958	Sussex County	Cape Henlopen School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 703-3456	681	48	14.1		481 (70.6%)	34 (5.0%)	82 (12.0%)	13 (1.9%)	5 (0.7%)	3 (0.4%)	63 (9.3%)	$14,449			$432			$17,097	82.4%	89.6%	7.27%			100017000382
4	Cedar Lane Elementary School	Public	1-5	1259 Cedar Lane Road	Middletown	19709	New Castle County	Appoquinimink School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 378-5045	596	40	14.9		234 (39.3%)	91 (15.3%)	35 (5.9%)	192 (32.2%)	10 (1.7%)	0 (0.0%)	34 (5.7%)	$12,350			$257			$14,530	76.5%	94.3%	17.87%			100008000332
5	Hanby Elementary School	Public	K-5	2523 Berwyn Road	Wilmington	19810	New Castle County	Brandywine School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 479-2220	514	39	13.1		289 (56.2%)	123 (23.9%)	23 (4.5%)	58 (11.3%)	3 (0.6%)	0 (0.0%)	18 (3.5%)	$17,560			$472			$22,500	70.6%	77.4%	6.77%			100124000293
6	Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School	Public	1-5	200 Brennan Boulevard	Bear	19701	New Castle County	Appoquinimink School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 832-1343	559	36	15.7		212 (37.9%)	97 (17.4%)	31 (5.5%)	171 (30.6%)	6 (1.1%)	0 (0.0%)	42 (7.5%)	$12,755			$230			$15,364	64.7%	87.7%	23.03%			100008000121
7	Rehoboth Elementary School	Public	K-5	500 Stockley Street	Rehoboth Beach	19971	Sussex County	Cape Henlopen School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 227-2571	528	42	12.5		358 (67.8%)	43 (8.1%)	90 (17.0%)	11 (2.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (4.9%)	$14,469			$954			$16,480	58.8%	92.5%	33.63%			100017000035
8	William F. Cooke Junior Elementary	Public	K-5	2025 Graves Road	Hockessin	19707	New Castle County	Red Clay Consolidated School District	No	No	No	No	(302) 235-6600	615	41	15		410 (66.7%)	51 (8.3%)	88 (14.3%)	35 (5.7%)	1 (0.2%)	2 (0.3%)	28 (4.6%)	$13,167			$217			$15,896	52.9%	93.4%	40.46%			100130000371
9	Allen Frear Elementary School	Public	1-5	238 Sorghum Mill Road	Camden	19901	Kent County	Caesar Rodney School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 697-3279	633	44	14.3		327 (51.7%)	141 (22.3%)	63 (10.0%)	31 (4.9%)	2 (0.3%)	1 (0.2%)	68 (10.7%)	$10,213			$564			$10,092	47.1%	90.6%	43.51%			100018000038
10	Claymont Elementary School	Public	K-5	3401 Green Street	Claymont	19703	New Castle County	Brandywine School District	No	No	No	Yes	(302) 792-3880	913	66	13.8		298 (32.6%)	300 (32.9%)	128 (14.0%)	111 (12.2%)	5 (0.5%)	2 (0.2%)	69 (7.6%)	$16,658			$901			$20,455	41.2%	83.0%	41.84%			100124000062

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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 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.

Educational resources:

Per-Pupil Spending: Understanding the Breakdown of Federal, State, and Local Funds

No Child Left Behind (NCLB): A Comprehensive Analysis of Its Impact on Education

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