First State Military Academy

First State Military Academy is one of the modestly sized four-year high schools in Clayton, Delaware, one of the schools within First State Military Academy, with 433 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. Compared to the state average of about 1,068 students per school, that is 59% below typical.

First State Military Academy is the operating authority for First State Military Academy, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, First State Military Academy logs that the largest single group is White at 49%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder comes out to 33% Black, 12% Hispanic, 3% multiracial, 2% Asian. By comparison, Kent County as a whole is about 58% White, so the school skews considerably less White than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 18.0:1. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kent County put median household earnings sit near $74,477, roughly 28% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 8% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Across Kent County's 55 public schools (combined enrollment of about 31,256 students), First State Military Academy is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: Clayton Elementary School, around 0.4 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

First State Military Academy operates from a small-town location. First State Military Academy is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. First State Military Academy's enrollment has grew 60% since 2018, when it stood at 271 (now 433). Black enrollment moved from 28% to 33% across the same window. Class-load math has rose: from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 18.0:1 in 2025.

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