Linden Hill Elementary School

Linden Hill Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack elementary-level community in Wilmington, Delaware, part of Red Clay Consolidated School District. The school instructs 532 students in grades K through 5.

Within Red Clay Consolidated School District, which oversees 27 schools and 14,444 students, Linden Hill Elementary School is one campus in the system.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Linden Hill Elementary School logs that the most-represented group is White (49%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest is composed of 21% Asian, 15% Black, 8% Hispanic, 8% multiracial.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 35 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 15.4:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 13.9:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

In the area at large, New Castle County reports that median household income runs about $91,166, roughly 40% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, New Castle County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students), of which Linden Hill Elementary School is one.

Skyline Middle School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.7 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a residential setting.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count decreased 11%: 599 students in 2018 compared to 532 in 2025. Asian enrollment moved from 28% to 21% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 16.6:1 in 2018 to 15.4:1 today.

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