Editing Middletown, Delaware (section)

== Education ==
Public education in Middletown is provided by the [[Appoquinimink 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=June 18, 2021}}</ref> which has recently{{when|date=June 2021}} built a new elementary school, Old State Elementary, to accommodate the population growth of the area and overcrowding at the other elementary schools. Even more recently, a new middle school, Cantwells Bridge, and a new high school, [[Odessa High School (Delaware)|Odessa High School]] were built. Overcrowding at [[Middletown High School (Delaware)|Middletown High School]], which was over-capacity by 400 students during the 2005–2006 school year, resulted in the construction of a second high school, [[Appoquinimink High School]], which opened in Fall 2008,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.apposchooldistrict.com/schools/appo-high.cfm|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20081001012421/http://www.apposchooldistrict.com/schools/appo-high.cfm|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 1, 2008|work=Appoquinimink School District|title=Our Schools: Appoquinimink High|access-date=March 30, 2011}}</ref> as well as a third high school, Odessa High School, which opened in 2020.

Middletown School District 60 and Odessa School District 61 merged into the Appoquinimink district effective 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=7 (PDF p. 15/97)|access-date=2025-03-30}}</ref>

[[Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School]] provided education to students of black African descent in the period before [[educational desegregation in the United States]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://archives.delaware.gov/delaware-historical-markers/louis-l-redding-comprehensive-high-school/|title=Louis L. Redding Comprehensive High School|publisher=State of Delaware|access-date=2025-04-01}}</ref> Middletown School District 120 operated Redding during the period 1953 to 1966. Desegregation occurred after 1966.<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=6 (PDF p. 12/97)|access-date=2025-03-30}}</ref>

The [[St. Georges Technical High School]] is located to the northeast of the town. [[MOT Charter School]] has two buildings, a high school to the northeast, and a K{{En dash}}8 building in the southwest.

Two private schools are located on the side of the town: [[St. Anne's Episcopal School]], which offers grades K-8, and [[St. Andrew's School (Delaware)|St. Andrew's School]], a coed [[boarding school]] affiliated with the [[Episcopal Diocese of Delaware]].

[[Wilmington University]] had a location in town.