2025 Census government inventory

Colonial School District

Independent school district in Delaware. Browse the source-reported information below.

Census ID 101858 · Census county field: New Castle · Functioning in the 2025 inventory
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

8,778students in the finance record
15operating schools connected
$23,840current spending per pupil
What voters decided · May 12, 2026

3 board seats decided from official records.

Delaware publishes one statewide candidate list plus signed result certificates. Election.org connected each seat and outcome to this school system by exact state education code—not by district-name similarity.

5qualified candidates
2contests decided by votes
1seat groups declared without a vote
Official outcomes

See who was elected and how each seat was decided.

Outcome is not a current-board claim
Who filed

Every 2026 candidate status the state published.

Filing status is preserved as published. Withdrawn candidates remain visible so the record explains who entered and later left the race.

Nominating District EQUALIFIED

Keenan D. Dorsey

4-year term · expires Jun 30, 2030

Filed Dec 31, 2025
Nominating District FQUALIFIED

Rasheeda J Campbell

4-year term · expires Jun 30, 2030

Filed Feb 17, 2026
Nominating District FQUALIFIED

Dawn L. Green

4-year term · expires Jun 30, 2030

Filed Mar 2, 2026
Nominating District GQUALIFIED

Kayode Abegunde

2-year term · expires Jun 30, 2028

Filed Feb 17, 2026
Nominating District GQUALIFIED

Carlos Dipres

2-year term · expires Jun 30, 2028

Filed Oct 27, 2025
Nominating District GWITHDRAWN

Tanya Kerns

2-year term · expires Jun 30, 2028

Filed Sep 5, 2025

1 candidate is marked withdrawn in the source and excluded from outcome calculations.

Source: Delaware Department of Elections. The source establishes 2026 filings and outcomes; it does not establish that a winner has taken office or remains a current board member. Candidate home addresses, phones, and emails are intentionally omitted. Source checked 2026-08-30.

Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment8,77811.2% lower than 2019
Current spending / pupil$23,84016.1% higher than 2019 after inflation · 42.4% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$235.0M38.8% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$70.0M187.6% higher than 2019 · nominal
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 9,889; 2020: 9,921; 2021: 9,795; 2022: 9,531; 2023: 9,132; 2024: 8,77810,0819,3508,618201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $20,541; 2020: $21,396; 2021: $20,670; 2022: $21,367; 2023: $23,697; 2024: $23,840$24,302$22,191$20,079201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20197.5% F57.9% S34.6% L
20206.7% F55.3% S37.9% L
20218.6% F55.4% S36.0% L
202211.4% F53.5% S35.1% L
202314.8% F52.8% S32.4% L
202413.2% F55.0% S31.8% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
20199,889$16,741$182,702,000$169,355,000$24,328,000
20209,921$17,653$199,964,000$189,003,000$19,864,000
20219,795$17,855$198,956,000$191,565,000$90,865,000
20229,531$19,934$212,841,000$206,521,000$71,820,000
20239,132$23,018$221,204,000$234,119,000$71,462,000
20248,778$23,840$223,531,000$235,028,000$69,958,000

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

Explore the schools—not just the agency record.

NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$224M in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal13.2%$29.5M
State55.0%$123M
Local31.8%$71.0M
Total expenditures$235M
Current spending$209M
Instruction$116M
Support services$85.8M
Capital outlay$9.77M
Debt outstanding$70.0M

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

Colonial School District

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK–12
StatusOpen
Address318 East Basin Road, New Castle, DE, 19720
Open district website →
About this school data

Census and NCES records describe this system’s enrollment, finances and schools for the years shown. Board, election and meeting information, when available, has separate sources and dates. An unlisted item means it is not covered here—not that it does not exist. Check the district’s official notices for current meetings and officeholders.

The source record

Listed as functioning in 2025.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
101858
Record type
Independent school district
Classification
School district
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
2025 Census snapshot

Reported contact and location fields

Reported mailing address318 EAST BASIN ROAD · NEW CASTLE, DE · 19720-4214
Reported contact roleSuperintendent

A role label, not a verified person’s name.

Census county fieldNew Castle
Reported websiteOpen listed website ↗

These are inventory fields, not newly verified office contacts. A county field or mailing address does not establish the exact service boundary.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment9,1322023

About these sources and their limits
Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.
  • The Delaware Department of Elections reports the 2026 seats, candidate filings and statuses, term expirations, official vote totals, and statutory no-contest declarations shown above.

Not established by these records

  • That an elected candidate has taken office, remains a current board member, or represents a current vacancy.
  • The complete current board roster, exact seat geometry, meetings, recorded votes, policies, or campaign finance.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.