Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School

Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School is one of the mid-tier elementary schools in Wilmington, Delaware, operated by Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School, with 557 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. By comparison, Delaware's public schools average about 461 students each, so Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School sits 21% bigger than that benchmark.

Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School sits inside Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (96%). By comparison, New Castle County as a whole is about 26% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.5:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (New Castle County) logs that the typical household earns roughly $91,166 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. Across New Castle County's 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students), Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School is one campus in the mix.

Howard High School of Technology is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.5 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Geographically, the school is in an urban area. Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Edison (Thomas A.) Charter School has edged down 24%, going from 732 students in 2018 to 557 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.5:1 in 2025.

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