Odyssey Charter School

Set in Wilmington, Delaware, Odyssey Charter School is a heavily attended K-12 campus, one of the schools within Odyssey Charter School. It hosts 2,286 students across grades K through 12. By comparison, Delaware's public schools average about 703 students each, so Odyssey Charter School sits 225% above that benchmark.

Operationally, Odyssey Charter School answers to Odyssey Charter School, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On demographics, Odyssey Charter School reports that the largest single group is Black at 34%, but no single group is in the majority. The remainder is composed of 31% White, 18% Asian, 10% Hispanic, 6% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 26%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Odyssey Charter School has 180 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.7:1. The state averages around 11.1:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, the surrounding county (New Castle County) records that median household income runs about $91,166, about 40% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and roughly 7% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Odyssey Charter School is one of 129 public schools in New Castle County (combined enrollment of about 78,534 students).

The closest other public school is Calloway (Cab) School of the Arts, roughly 0.7 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Odyssey Charter School.

Geographically, the school is in a bedroom-community area. Odyssey Charter School is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Odyssey Charter School's enrollment has expanded 38% since 2018, when it stood at 1,662 (now 2,286). Over the same period, the White share declined from 55% to 31%.

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