Editing Claymont, Delaware (section)

==Education==
Claymont is in the [[Brandywine School District]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/PL20/st10_de/schooldistrict_maps/c10003_new_castle/DC20SD_C10003.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - SCHOOL DISTRICT REFERENCE MAP: New Castle County, DE|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2021-06-18}}</ref> Zoned schools are as follows:<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www2.census.gov/geo/maps/DC2020/DC20BLK/st10_de/place/p1015310_claymont/DC20BLK_P1015310.pdf|title=2020 CENSUS - CENSUS BLOCK MAP: Claymont CDP, DE|publisher=[[U.S. Census Bureau]]|access-date=2025-03-14}} - Compare to the school boundary maps.</ref> 
* Most of the CDP is zoned to Claymont Elementary School, while parts are zoned to Maple Lane Elementary School and to Forwood Elementary School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brandywineschools.org:443/fs/resource-manager/view/c6b46d18-db6d-4f0e-b808-47075d7ee732|title=Elementary Schools (Grades K-5)|publisher=[[Brandywine School District]]|access-date=2025-03-14}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref>
* Most areas are zoned to Talley Middle School, while some are zoned to P. S. DuPont Middle School.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brandywineschools.org/fs/resource-manager/view/8bb1ba8a-f54a-4ff7-93fc-0a02a9bc6bd1|title=Middle Schools (Grades 6-8)|publisher=[[Brandywine School District]]|access-date=2025-03-14}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref>
* Much of Claymont CDP is zoned to [[Brandywine High School]] while some of the CDP is zoned to [[Mount Pleasant High School (Delaware)|Mount Pleasant High School]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.brandywineschools.org/fs/resource-manager/view/96590ac7-348e-468c-aaa0-a3012fbd93f1|title=High Schools (Grades 9-12)|publisher=[[Brandywine School District]]|access-date=2025-03-14}} - Compare to the CDP map.</ref>

[[Archmere Academy]], a private school, is in Claymont.

The current Claymont Library, operated by New Castle County Libraries, opened in 2013.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newcastlede.gov/298/Claymont-Library|title=Claymont Library|publisher=New Castle County|access-date=2025-03-29|quote=400 Lenape Way Claymont, DE 19703}}</ref>

Previously Claymont was in the Claymont School District.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mowery|first=Roger|url=https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/ebooks/Delaware_School_Districts_1974.pdf|title=Delaware School District Organization and Boundaries|publisher=[[Delaware State Department of Instruction]]|place=[[Dover, Delaware]]|year=1974|page=61 (PDF p. 77/97)|access-date=2025-03-30}}</ref> The [[Delaware General Assembly]] established the Claymont Special School District on June 24, 1920, and that district was reorganized into the Claymont School District on July 1, 1969.<ref>{{cite web|last=Mowery|first=Roger|url=https://archivesfiles.delaware.gov/ebooks/Delaware_School_Districts_1974.pdf|title=Delaware School District Organization and Boundaries|publisher=[[Delaware State Department of Instruction]]|place=[[Dover, Delaware]]|year=1974|page=9 (PDF p. 17/97)|access-date=2025-03-30}}</ref> That district merged into the [[New Castle County School District]] in 1978. That district was divided into four districts, among them the Brandywine district, in 1981.<ref name=Delgovhist>{{cite web|url=https://archives.delaware.gov/delaware-agency-histories/new-castle-county-school-district/|title=New Castle County School District|publisher=Government of Delaware|access-date=2025-03-31}}</ref>

Prior to educational desegregation in the mid-20th century, African-American children in Claymont went to [[Howard High School (Wilmington, Delaware)|Howard High School]] in Wilmington.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.nps.gov/brvb/learn/historyculture/claymont.htm|title=Claymont, Delaware|publisher=[[National Park Service]]|access-date=2025-04-03}}</ref>