Largest Schools in Delaware
Delaware has 223 public schools across 42 districts with a total enrollment of 141,465 students. The largest school is Newark Charter School in Newark.
Largest Schools in Delaware
| # | School | City | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newark Charter School | Newark | 2,987 |
| 2 | Caesar Rodney High School | Camden | 2,257 |
| 3 | Penn (William) High School | New Castle | 2,239 |
| 4 | Odyssey Charter School | Wilmington | 2,123 |
| 5 | Sussex Central High School | Georgetown | 2,039 |
| 6 | Cape Henlopen High School | Lewes | 1,813 |
| 7 | Smyrna High School | Smyrna | 1,807 |
| 8 | Dover High School | Dover | 1,771 |
| 9 | Delcastle Technical High School | Wilmington | 1,585 |
| 10 | Appoquinimink High School | Middletown | 1,484 |
Largest Districts in Delaware
| # | District | Enrollment |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Red Clay Consolidated School District | 14,771 |
| 2 | Christina School District | 13,092 |
| 3 | Appoquinimink School District | 12,804 |
| 4 | Indian River School District | 10,799 |
| 5 | Brandywine School District | 10,367 |
| 6 | Colonial School District | 9,132 |
| 7 | Caesar Rodney School District | 8,286 |
| 8 | Capital School District | 6,396 |
| 9 | Cape Henlopen School District | 6,336 |
| 10 | Smyrna School District | 6,067 |
School data for Delaware is sourced from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results.
Frequently Asked Questions
The largest public school in Delaware by enrollment is Newark Charter School in Newark with 2,987 students.
Delaware has 223 public schools across 42 school districts, with a total enrollment of 141,465 students.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. This includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates.
School data includes enrollment, student-teacher ratios, proficiency rates, and graduation rates from NCES and EDFacts.
The this entity category groups every U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment entity sharing this attribute. The list above is the data; the paragraphs below explain what the grouping means against the broader NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts distribution and how to read the relative rankings within the category.
For readers using this category as a starting point, the per-entity detail pages linked from the table above carry the underlying NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts data in full. The category-level view is the filter; the per-entity pages are the actual answer.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.