Cape Henlopen School District Explained

The Cape Henlopen School District (CHSD) is a public school district in Sussex County, Delaware in the United States. The district is based in an unincorporated area with a Lewes postal address,^[3] and serves the Cape Region in eastern Sussex County.

Cape Henlopen School District was established in 1969. Communities served by the district include Lewes, Henlopen Acres, Rehoboth Beach, Dewey Beach, and Milton.^[4]

History

It was created in 1969 by the merger of the Lewes, Milton, and Rehoboth school districts.^[5]

In March 2016,^[6] voters approved of a bond referendum to build new schools, with 74% of voters, numbering 2,947, choosing yes.^[7]

Schools

High school

• Cape Henlopen High School

Middle schools

• Beacon Middle School
• Mariner Middle School
• A new middle school with a capacity of 600 students is planned in Lewes. It will be built on the previous campus of Shields Elementary.^[8] ABHA Architects is the architectural firm.^[9] Its facility will not be as large as the former Shields Elementary, and its opening is scheduled for 2024.^[10] It will have a capacity of about 500 students.^[11]

Elementary schools

• Brittingham (H.O.) Elementary School
  • The original school was built in 1966. The current school was built on the grounds of the previous facility, with groundbreaking in 2017. The roof has a learning area. Compared to the original building, there is more space for kindergarten and first grade classrooms.^[7]
• Love Creek Elementary School
  • On the other side of Beacon Middle School, it has two sections. It has a two-story grade 2-5 wing with grades 2-3 and 4-5 on their respective upper and lower floors; each grade has six classrooms. There is a separate kindergarten wing and a separate first grade wing; the kindergarten classrooms have in-suite bathrooms.^[12] The rooms are arranged in hub formats.^[6] Love Creek Elementary is on a 25acres plot of land,^[12] and was to be 90000square feet of space. The price tag was about $29 million. It was to absorb about 100-200 students from each of the existing schools.^[6]
  • It opened in 2017.^[13] Of the schools that opened in its bond cohort, it was the only new school.^[6]
• Milton Elementary School
• Rehoboth Elementary School
  • It is on a 25acres plot of land.^[14] The current building was to open in 2019.^[15] It has 92000square feet of space.^[16] In the same location as the former building, uses the same design as Brittingham and Love Creek schools.^[14] It had a cost of $33 million. It has features that refer to the local area.^[17]
• Shields (Richard A.) Elementary School
  • The original Shields Elementary opened in 1966. In 1987, 1994, and 2007 the building was either given an addition or it was renovated. The school had about 800 students until 2017, when the student body declined to 550, as Love Creek Elementary opened and took some of the students. The district planned to demolish the current Shields facility in 2022,^[11] so it could build a new middle school on the site, and Shields Elementary will be moved to the first Lewes School building. The gymnasium was preserved while the Little Vikings section, a 1921 addition at Lewes School, was demolished.^[9] The district plans to build new two story additions at the Lewes School building. The new school will have a capacity of about 650 students.^[11]

Alternative

• Sussex Consortium (Lewes)

Former schools:

• Ninth Grade Campus^[18]
• Lewes Middle School^[19]
• Milton Middle School^[19]

Notable alumni

• Bryan Stevenson, lawyer, activist, author, law professor; founder and executive director of Equal Justice Initiative based in Montgomery, Alabama.
• John Morris – MLB pitcher, born in Lewes
• Jimmie Allen American country singer

See also

• List of school districts in Delaware

External links

• Cape Henlopen School District

Notes and References

1. Web site: Delaware Department of Education School Profile . . July 4, 2016.
2. Web site: Henlopen Conference on DigitalSports.com . Digital Sports.com . 2010-02-27.
3. Web site: Annual Report Fall 2019. Cape Henlopen School District. 2021-06-15. 2/16. The District Office, located at 1270 Kings Highway, houses[...]. - The location is not in the Lewes city limits: index map and pages 1 and 2 of the 2010 U.S. Census.
4. Cape Henlopen School District. Department of Elections for Sussex County. October 2003. July 4, 2016.
5. Web site: MacArthur. Ron. Cape Henlopen High school bridges past to present with dedication of cornerstone. Cape Gazette. 2010-11-11. 2021-06-17.
6. Web site: Hughes. Gray. New Cape Henlopen school, Love Creek, taking shape. The Daily Times. Salisbury, Maryland. 2017-02-08. 2021-06-16.
7. Web site: Hughes. Gray. Tax vote bears fruit with Cape school groundbreaking. The Daily Times. Salisbury, Maryland. 2017-03-24. 2021-06-16.
8. Web site: Lewes Middle School Site Plan Approved. WBOC. 2021-06-14. 2021-06-16.
9. Web site: Driscoll. Ellen. Cape district names architect for new Lewes middle school. Cape Gazette. 2020-06-10. 2021-06-16.
10. Web site: Roth. Nick. Lewes council to consider middle school site plan June 14. Cape Gazette. 2021-06-11. 2021-06-16.
11. News: Roth. Nick. Lewes planners review new Shields Elementary site plan . Cape Gazette. 2019-07-17. 2021-07-05.
12. Web site: Steele. Melissa. New school built for the 21st century. Cape Gazette. 2015-06-23. 2021-06-15.
13. Web site: Hughes. Gray. As Love Creek Elementary opens, a growing Cape Henlopen School District plans for future. The Daily Times. 2017-09-05. 2021-06-16.
14. Web site: Mavity. Ryan. New Rehoboth Elementary School to open in fall 2019. Cape Gazette. 2017-12-21. 2021-06-16.
15. Web site: Driscoll. Ellen. Construction in full swing at Rehoboth, Consortium. Cape Gazette. 2019-03-29. 2021-06-15.
16. Web site: New Rehoboth Elementary School to open in fall 2019. City of Rehoboth Beach. 2021-06-16.
17. Web site: Goebel. Taylor. $33 million Rehoboth Elementary School opens as district tackles capacity issues. The Daily Times. 2019-09-12. 2021-06-16.
18. Web site: Schools. Cape Henlopen School District. 2006-10-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20061019130251/http://www.k12.de.us/capehenlopen/schools.htm. 2021-06-16. 2006-10-19.
19. Web site: Site Map. Cape Henlopen School District. 2002-04-25. https://web.archive.org/web/20020425032256/http://www.k12.de.us/capehenlopen/sitemap.htm. 2021-06-16. 2002-04-25. - "New Middle Schools Construction" shows that the former Lewes and Milton middles were replaced.