McKean (Thomas) High School

McKean (Thomas) High School, a mid-sized high school, is located in Wilmington, Delaware. It has an enrollment of 920 students in grades 9 through 12.

Red Clay Consolidated School District runs 27 schools with a combined 14,444 students. McKean (Thomas) High School is one of them.

The student body at McKean (Thomas) High School has no majority group. Hispanic students lead at 42%. The remaining shares are 28% Black, 26% White, and 3% multiracial. New Castle County as a whole is about 12% Hispanic, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 68% means there is a 68% chance two randomly chosen students at McKean (Thomas) High School are from different groups.

Classroom staffing at McKean (Thomas) High School totals 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, and the student-to-teacher ratio is 13.1:1. The average for high schools in Delaware is 16.6:1, so this school has fewer students per teacher.

McKean (Thomas) High School earns a D on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 9% of Delaware public high schools.

The county, New Castle County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $91,166, about 40% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and the poverty rate is about 7%. The county's public schools total 129, with about 78,534 students.

McKean (Thomas) High School's closest public school neighbor is William F. Cooke Jr. Elementary, about 0.6 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

The school's federal locale classification is Suburb: Large.

Enrollment at McKean (Thomas) High School was 911 in 2020-21 and 920 in 2024-25, a change of less than 3%.

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