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Mount Pleasant High School

5201 Washington Street Extensi, Wilmington, DE, 19809-2198 -

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Definition of Terms

Mount Pleasant High School

School Level

High school

Grades Offered

Grades 8 - 12

County

New Castle County, DE

Students & Faculty

Total Students

988 students

% Male / % Female

50% / 50%

Total Classroom Teachers

66 teachers

Students by Grade

Grade 8 - 5 students

Grade 9 - 314 students

Grade 10 - 246 students

Grade 11 - 198 students

Grade 12 - 225 students

This School

(DE) School Average

Teacher : Student Ratio

1:15

1:16

Students by Ethnicity

This School

(DE) School Average

% American Indian	n/a	n/a
% Asian	3%	2%
% Hispanic	4%	6%
% Black	46%	30%
% White	47%	59%

Additional Student Information

This School

(DE) School Average

% Eligible for Free Lunch

31%

22%

% Eligible for Reduced Lunch

% Migrant Students Enrolled

n/a

n/a

(DE) Statewide Testing Performance

School Statewide Performance

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School District Name

Brandywine School District

This School's Agency

(DE) District Average

Number of Schools Managed	19	7
Number of Students Managed	10,963 students	3,740 students
District Total Revenue	$124,925,000	$38,482,000
District Expenditure	$144,021,000	$37,716,000
District Revenue / Student	$11,395	$10,289
District Expenditure / Student	$13,137	$10,084
District Graduation Rates	78%	92%

BofA gives $200,000 to Food Bank, La Esperanza (The News Journal)
posted on October 9, 2009 at 08:10:33 am
The Bank of America Foundation on Thursday announced $400,000 in donations to two Delaware charities, giving $200,000 apiece to The Food Bank of Delaware and La Esperanza.
Weekend: Things to do in the region (The News Journal)
posted on October 3, 2009 at 07:58:38 am
Where to go and what to see before Monday
PHOTO GALLERY: Mount Pleasant hands Lake Forest first loss of season (Dover Post)
posted on September 26, 2009 at 08:32:27 pm
The Lake Forest High School football team put its undefeated record on the line Sept. 26 as it traveled to Mount Pleasant High School in Wilmington for a Saturday morning game. The Spartans were unable to protect a lead and fell to their opponents, 35-27.
Spartans look to stay perfect against Mount (Dover Post)
posted on September 25, 2009 at 11:17:27 pm
The Lake Forest High School football team has looked like a whole new program so far this year, as it has opened the season at 2-0, outscoring its opponents 60-34 in those first two contests.
Police to come from all over to honor one of their own (The News Journal)
posted on September 5, 2009 at 07:50:26 am
More than 1,500 law enforcement officers from across the country are expected to report to Georgetown on Tuesday to pay their respects to Officer Chad Spicer, who was fatally shot while on duty this week.

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Mount Pleasant High School is a public secondary school located in Wilmington, Delaware. There were 908 students enrolled in the fall for the 2008-2009 school year. It is the only public high school in Delaware which offers the International Baccalaureate program.
History
One of Delaware's first public schools, Mount Pleasant dates to 1830, originally located on the site of what is now Bellevue State Park. It has been in its present building since 1958, and a part of the Brandywine School District since 1978. The current principal, Jim Simmons, is the first alumnus of Mount Pleasant to be appointed principal.
Academics
In 2008, Mount Pleasant ranked #602 in Newsweek's top 1300 high schools, which uses a ratio of the number of AP, IB and/or Cambridge tests taken by all students at a school divided by the number of graduating seniors. In the spring of 2008, 220 students took IB exams and more than 100 students took AP exams. Mount Pleasant's Academic Bowl team placed 2nd in the 2008 Comcast Academic Challenge of Delaware.
Activities
Mount Pleasant is also the home of WMPH 91.7 FM, which began broadcasting on October 1, 1969, and was Delaware's only public high school radio station until McKean began broadcasting at WHMS 88.1 FM in 1998.
Mount Pleasant also hosts the only completely student-run Relay for Life in the region. Over the past 5 years, over $150,000 has been raised for the American Cancer Society through this event.
Mount Pleasant's chapter of the Technology Student Association has been recognized for the school's contributions to the TSA/ACS Service Project through Relay for Life. The current national president of TSA, Peter Andrews, is a student at Mount Pleasant.
Mount Pleasant puts on a spring musical every year. The 2009 production was Damn Yankees and the 2008 production was The King and I.

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