Talk:List of school districts in Delaware

Charter Schools
In most states, charter schools are separate from the existing school districts so a separate list would probably make sense. Statistically, Delaware tracks all charter schools together as one hypothetical school district. Also, many of these charter schools are part of the Red Clay Consolidated School Disrict so a sharp line between districts and charters is difficult —Preceding unsigned comment added by RevelationDirect (talk • contribs) 12:27, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
 * Agreed, they should be removed from this article. Creating page List of charter schools in Delaware. Piboy51 (talk) 01:54, 9 January 2015 (UTC)

Direct State Schools
Since long before the charter school movement, there have been public schools in Delaware that are not under a school board and accept students regardless of which school district they reside in. The examples I'm aware of have been to assist students with special physical needs, to enforce de jure racial segregation, and to serve youths in the criminal justice system. While these school did technically receive a "charter" from the state, they are not thought of as charter schools. If someone has a better name for these institutions, feel free to change the section header RevelationDirect (talk) 19:58, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

Historic Districts
Delaware's school history is complicated by de jure racial segregation, federal desegration efforts, and parent-lead de facto segregation. The state was part of the original Brown v. Board of Education. The state's efforts at maintaining segregation so frustrated federal officials that the courts tool the unusual step of abolishing all the school districts in the Wilmington area to form a single metropolitan school district which was later divided by the state into four. So the four largest districts in the state are all fairly new creations. I'll add this info elsewhere as time allows but I didn't think it belonged in a "list" page.

I am bein inconsistent by separating out consolidated school districts but keeping closed charter and state schools in the main sections but I thought this avoided chopiness. RevelationDirect (talk) 21:27, 28 September 2008 (UTC)

I added the southern school district mergers from 1969-70, but we seem to still be missing some school districts. There were 48 public school districts in the state in 1967, after the desegregation mergers (meaning none were still black only/white only public districts) but before the biggest mergers happened 1969-70. Any help with that would be appreciated. Superman7515 (talk) 14:05, 5 September 2013 (UTC)

Grouping
I've reached out to Omar Zaman several times about how best to group this. While charter schools are collectively categorized as a virtual school district for statistical purposes, listing each one separately as a school district is inaccurate. I also think creating 19 categories for a state with 19 school districts is inefficient and county groupings are more straight forward. I'm open to other opinions, please comment. RevelationDirect (talk) 00:47, 4 July 2009 (UTC)


 * It appears 38 state lists are alphabetical, not by County, or category, so you might consider changing this to be consistent.  RickH86 (talk) 14:40, 7 July 2020 (UTC)