Brandywine School District

It serves Arden, Ardencroft, Ardentown, Bellefonte, Claymont, Edgemoor,[1] Talleyville,[2] and a northeast portion of the city of Wilmington.

[5] That year Al Mascitti, a columnist for The News Journal, stated that the school board "started treating the district like a foul-smelling refrigerator".

[7] In the 2019–2020 school year, the district enrolled 10,500 students and employed 919 teachers for a student-to-teacher ratio of about 11.43:1.

[10] In 2006, a Claymont Elementary school teacher was arrested for first-degree rape, and providing alcohol to a minor, after it was discovered that she had sex with a 13-year-old male student twenty-eight times.

She pled guilty to a single count of second-degree rape and received a mandatory minimum 10-year sentence.

[11][12] A federal lawsuit was levied against the district in 2016, as a mis-identification and subsequent search discovered weapons in a students bag, caused a 5-day out of school suspension.