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Middle · Regular · Grades 6 to 8

Middle School of Excellence, Dover, DE

Middle School of Excellence is a public middle school in Dover, part of Capital School District. It enrolled 608 students in 2024-25, with 26.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students
608
Teachers (FTE)
23.0
Students per teacher
26.4
Grades
6 to 8

This school's ratio is 7.7 higher than the district figure of 18.7. The Delaware average across schools is 14.7. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school26.4
District18.7
Delaware14.7
United States15.3

School details

Address
1 Patrick Lynn Drive, Dover, DE 19904
Phone
(302)674-6100
District
Capital School District
County
Kent County
Level
Middle
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
No
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Small
NCES school ID
100019000399
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Direct certification
253Students 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 middle schools in Capital School District

Middle schools elsewhere in Dover

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.