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First State School, Wilmington, DE

First State School is a public school in Wilmington, part of Red Clay Consolidated School District. It enrolled 21 students in 2024-25, with 3.5 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
21
Teachers (FTE)
6.0
Students per teacher
3.5
Grades
1 to 11

This school's ratio is 10.3 lower than the district figure of 13.8. The Delaware average across schools is 14.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school3.5
District13.8
Delaware14.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
501 West 14th Street, Wilmington, DE 19899
Phone
(302)320-5848
District
Red Clay Consolidated School District
County
New Castle County
Level
Other
Type
Alternative
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
100130000116
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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
13Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision
No

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other similar schools in Red Clay Consolidated School District

Other schools elsewhere in Wilmington

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.