Cape Henlopen High School
Lewes, DE · High School · Grades 9-12
Cape Henlopen High School is a high school in Lewes, DE with 1,813 students enrolled and a 49% proficiency rate. Part of Cape Henlopen School District. NCES data from the U.S. Department of Education.
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About This School
Cape Henlopen High School is a high school located in Lewes, Delaware. The school serves 1,813 students in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1.
According to EDFacts assessment data, 49% of students meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading. The school reports a 77% graduation rate.
Cape Henlopen High School is part of the Cape Henlopen School District in Delaware.
How This School Compares
Cape Henlopen High School has 1,813 students enrolled, making it larger than the average school in Cape Henlopen School District (704 students). Its 49% proficiency rate is 0 percentage points below the district average of 50%. Compared to the Delaware state average of 50%, the school performs 1 points lower. With a 14.9:1 student-teacher ratio, it offers smaller class sizes than the national average.
Frequently Asked Questions
Cape Henlopen High School has 1,813 students enrolled in grades 9-12. The student-to-teacher ratio is 14.9:1.
According to EDFacts data, 49% of students at Cape Henlopen High School meet grade-level proficiency standards in combined math and reading assessments.
Cape Henlopen High School has a 77% graduation rate, measuring the percentage of students who graduate within four years.
Cape Henlopen High School is part of the Cape Henlopen School District in Lewes, Delaware. You can view all schools in this district on the district page.
All data on this page comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data and EDFacts assessment results. These are official federal datasets published by the U.S. Department of Education.
School profiles are built from NCES directory data and EDFacts assessment results. Proficiency rates reflect combined math and reading performance. Graduation rates are reported for high schools with available data.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
For readers using this page as a decision input, the related-entity pages elsewhere on the site provide the comparison set. The most useful comparison for this entity is typically a peer within U.S. public schools and districts with similar size, similar exposure, or similar geography — not the national-level summary alone.
Source: NCES Common Core of Data, 2026.