Summary:
The Milford School District in Delaware has only one high school, Milford Senior High School, which serves grades 9-12. The school has consistently ranked in the bottom third of Delaware high schools over the past three school years, indicating significant challenges in student performance and academic achievement.
Milford Senior High School has a performance rating of just 1 out of 5 stars from SchoolDigger, with student proficiency rates on standardized tests falling well below state averages across all subjects and grade levels. For example, in the 2024-2025 school year, only 40.73% of 11th-grade students were proficient or better in SAT/English Language Arts, compared to the state average of 47.41%. In mathematics, the proficiency rate for 11th-grade students was just 5.5%, compared to the state average of 18.4%. The school also faces concerns with chronic absenteeism, with 20.4% of students chronically absent in the 2023-2024 school year, and a relatively lower graduation rate of 88.9%.
While the school's student-teacher ratio of 18.2 for the 2023-2024 school year suggests adequate staffing, the overall funding and resources available to the school may be a contributing factor to its low performance. The Milford School District's ranking is 22 out of 32 districts in Delaware, with a 2-star rating, and the school's per-student spending for the 2018-2019 school year was $12,445. Addressing the systemic challenges facing Milford Senior High School will likely require a multi-faceted approach, including targeted interventions, additional resources, and a focus on improving student engagement and academic support.
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