Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School

Located at 200 Brennan Boulevard, in Bear, Delaware, Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School is a middle-of-the-pack K-5 school that educates 499 students (grades 1 through 5), overseen by Appoquinimink School District.

Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School is one of 21 schools operated by Appoquinimink School District, a district that educates 12,897 students overall.

For racial and ethnic makeup, Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School records that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest comes out to 29% Asian, 20% Black, 8% Hispanic, 7% multiracial. That is visibly less White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 54%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 37 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 13.7:1. The state averages about 13.9:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the area at large, New Castle County reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,166 per year, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 7%. In all, New Castle County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students), of which Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School is one.

Hodgson (Paul M.) Vocational Technical High School is the nearest neighboring public school, about 2.8 miles from this campus. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in an outer-ring area.

Over the past 7-year window. Loss (Olive B.) Elementary School's enrollment has shrank 20% since 2018, when it stood at 622 (now 499). The White share of enrollment fell from 58% to 35% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 16.4:1 in 2018 to 13.7:1 today.

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