Great Oaks Charter School

Great Oaks Charter School is a very small high school based in Wilmington, Delaware. It enrolls 149 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are 9 through 12. It has 86% fewer students than the average for high schools in Delaware (about 1,068).

Great Oaks Charter School operates as its own local education agency.

Roughly 87% of students at Great Oaks Charter School are Black. Smaller groups are 10% Hispanic and 2% multiracial. County-wide, 26% of New Castle County residents are Black. The diversity index for Great Oaks Charter School is 24%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.

Great Oaks Charter School has a student-to-teacher ratio of 14.9:1, with 10 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for high schools in Delaware is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

Five-year Census Bureau estimates for New Castle County show that median household income comes to about $91,166, roughly 40% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and about 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. New Castle County counts 129 public schools with about 78,534 students.

Of the public schools around it, Great Oaks Charter School is closest to Kuumba Academy Charter School, less than a tenth of a mile away. Great Oaks Charter School has at least 8 other public schools within five miles.

Great Oaks Charter School falls in the City: Small locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population under 100,000. The school is a charter school, funded with public money and operated under a charter agreement.

Federal records list enrollment at Great Oaks Charter School as 318 in 2020-21 and 149 in 2024-25. A change that size can reflect a shift in the grades the school serves as well as a change in students. Students per teacher increased from 11.4 in 2020-21 to 14.9 in 2024-25.

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