Editing Hockessin, Delaware (section)

==Education==
Hockessin is served by the [[Red Clay Consolidated School District]] for public education.<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>

Elementary schools serving Hockessin for grades K through 5 include Cooke Elementary School and North Star Elementary School.<ref>{{cite web|title=Approved 2015–16 Elementary Attendance Zones|publisher=Red Clay Consolidated School District|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=1343&FileName=AZ_Elementary_Approved.pdf|access-date=March 25, 2018}} - For more detail: {{cite web|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=3883&FileName=Cooke_2016.pdf|title=Cooke_2016.pdf|publisher=[[Red Clay Consolidated School District]]|accessdate=2021-06-21}} and {{cite web|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=3894&FileName=North_Star_2016.pdf|title=North_Star_2016.pdf|publisher=[[Red Clay Consolidated School District]]|accessdate=2021-06-21}}</ref> Public school students in grades 6 through 8 are zoned to Henry B. duPont Middle School.<ref>{{cite web|title=Henry B. duPont Middle School Attendance Zone|publisher=Red Clay Consolidated School District|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=3886&FileName=HB_duPont_Sub_2016.pdf|access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref> Students in grades 9 through 12 in Hockessin are zoned to [[Thomas McKean High School]] to the south of Hockessin or [[Alexis I. duPont High School]] in [[Greenville, Delaware|Greenville]], with students in the western part of Hockessin attending [[John Dickinson High School]] in [[Pike Creek, Delaware|Pike Creek]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Thomas McKean High School Attendance Zone|publisher=Red Clay Consolidated School District|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=1353&FileName=McKean_Sub_2016.pdf|access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Alexis I. duPont High School Attendance Zone|publisher=Red Clay Consolidated School District|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=1348&FileName=AIHS_2016.pdf|access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=John Dickinson High School Attendance Zone|publisher=Red Clay Consolidated School District|url=https://www.redclayschools.com/site/handlers/filedownload.ashx?moduleinstanceid=1183&dataid=1349&FileName=Dickinson_Sub_2016.pdf|access-date=March 12, 2018}}</ref> [[Cab Calloway School of the Arts]] and [[Conrad Schools of Science]] are [[magnet schools]] that take middle and high school students. 

Private schools in Hockessin include CACC (Chinese American Community Center) Montessori School, Hockessin Montessori School, [[Sanford School]], and Wilmington Christian School.

Hockessin School District 29 and Hockessin School District 107 merged into the Alexis I. DuPont Special School District effective April 24, 1958 and March 5, 1959, respectively. The Alexis DuPont Special school district was reorganized on July 1, 1969 as the Alexis I. DuPont 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=7 (PDF p. 15/97)|access-date=2025-03-30}}</ref> The Alexis I. DuPont district merged into the [[New Castle County School District]] in 1978. That district was divided into four districts, among them the Red Clay 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>

In the era of [[de jure]] [[educational segregation in the United States]] (before circa 1970), there was the Hockessin Colored Elementary School for African-American students.<ref>{{cite book|chapter=Delaware: Conflict in a Border State|title=Separate is Not Equal: Brown v. Board of Education|page=[https://americanhistory.si.edu/brown/history/4-five/delaware-2.html 2]|publisher=[[Smithsonian Institution]]|access-date=2025-04-03}}</ref>

New Castle County Library maintains the Hockessin Library.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.newcastlede.gov/329/Hockessin-Library|title=Hockessin Library|publisher=New Castle County Library|access-date=2025-03-29|quote=1023 Valley Rd  Hockessin, DE 19707}}</ref>