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Delaware's Ten Largest School Districts

The following chart provides graduation rate calculations for the state's ten largest school districts by enrollment. The chart, which reflects 2001 data, provides an overall graduation rate for the school district and also breaks down graduation rates by student subgroup when available. Please check back in July 2008 for updated district-level information on graduation rates.

For more recent information, access your state's state card or visit the Alliance's promoting power database for information on how well individual high schools graduate their students.

  Enrollment

CPI Graduation Rate (%)*

Total Amer. Indian Asian Hispanic Black White
Christina
19,882
59.2
--
--
40.1
48.3
67.1
Red Clay CSD
15,827
55.8
--
--
39.5
43.1
63.6
Brandywine
10,953
67.1
--
--
--
52.0
76.5
Colonial
10,521
50.0
--
--
42.3
48.6
49.2
Indian River
7,601
70.2
--
--
62.9
--
74.0
Caesar Rodney
6,765
50.4
--
--
36.9
29.8
59.6
Capital
6,217
57.2
--
--
--
--
66.7
Appoquinimink
5,346
80.4
--
--
--
--
79.8
Cape Henlopen
4,145
72.4
--
--
--
42.9
79.5
Milford
3,777
65.6
--
--
26.7
--
73.2

Source: Who Graduates? Who Doesn't? A Statistical Portrait of Public High School Graduation, Class of 2001, Urban Institute, February 2004.


* According to the Urban Institute, the value of the Cumulative Promotion Index (CPI) indicator "approximates the probability that a student entering the 9th grade will complete high school on time with a regular diploma. It does this by representing high school graduation as a stepwise process composed of three grade-to-grade promotion transitions (9 to 10, 10 to 11, and 11 to 12) in addition to the ultimate high school graduation event (grade 12 to diploma)." The Urban Institute emphasizes that this measure "counts only students receiving regular high school diplomas as graduates," and does not include students who receive a GED. More information on the CPI is available from the Urban Institute.