Mount Pleasant High School (Delaware)
high school in Delaware, United States
Mount Pleasant High School (MPHS) is a public secondary school located in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States. MPHS was the first public high school in Delaware to offer the International Baccalaureate program.
As of the 2022–2023 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,107 students and 77.10 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 14.36.
Communities in the school's attendance boundary include Arden, Ardencroft, almost all of Ardentown, Bellefonte, most of Edgemoor census-designated place, parts of Claymont CDP, and parts of the City of Wilmington.
History
After Delaware passed the Free School Act in 1829, the state began pulling together their first public school system; the first school in Mount Pleasant, located in School District #2, was built soon after. The original schoolhouse still stands today and is located on an acre of land now part of Bellevue State Park. The community continued to grow and required a larger school, so in 1865, a new building was built near Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. This new school taught grades one through eight and gradually added nine through twelve as the students aged.
In 1932, they required even more space; what is now Mount Pleasant Elementary School was built to accommodate the still-growing population and named the Mount Pleasant School. However, only grades one through nine were offered.
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