McKean (Thomas) High School

Set in Wilmington, Delaware, McKean (Thomas) High School is a mid-tier four-year high school, one of the schools within Red Clay Consolidated School District. It instructs 920 students across grades 9 through 12.

Red Clay Consolidated School District runs 27 schools in total, collectively educating 14,444 students. McKean (Thomas) High School is one of those campuses.

Demographically, McKean (Thomas) High School logs that 42% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder reads as 28% Black, 26% White, 3% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 70 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. The state averages around 16.6:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New Castle County) reports that the typical household earns roughly $91,166 per year, 40% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 7%. In all, New Castle County runs 129 public schools (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students), of which McKean (Thomas) High School is one.

William F. Cooke Jr. Elementary is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.6 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around McKean (Thomas) High School.

The campus sits in a commuter-belt setting.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at McKean (Thomas) High School has grew 12%, going from 825 students in 2018 to 920 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment grew from 36% to 42% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 13.1:1 in 2025.

Inside the community feed, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.