Brandywine High School

Brandywine High School
Address
1400 Foulk Road Wilmington , Delaware 19803 United States
Information
Type	Public
Established	1958(67 years ago) (1958)
School district	Brandywine School District
CEEB code	080158
Principal	Rebecca Reggio
Teaching staff	63.5 (FTE) [1]
Grades	9–12
Enrollment	941 (2023-2024) [1]
Student to teacher ratio	13.84 [1]
Color(s)	Blue and white
Athletics conference	Blue Hen Conference - Flight B
Mascot	Bulldog
Newspaper	The Brandywine Line
Yearbook	Azurean
Website	www.brandywineschools.org/brandywine

Brandywine High School is a public secondary school located near Talleys Corner ^[2] in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, with a Wilmington postal address. ^{[3] [4]} Although the school is not within the Wilmington city limits, it does serve some parts of the city north of the Brandywine River. ^[5] It is a part of the Brandywine School District. ^[3]

There were 940 students enrolled in the fall for the 2020–2021 school year. ^{[3] [6]} Rebecca Reggio is the current principal of Brandywine High School. ^[7]

History

Brandywine High School was established in 1958. Its building was designed by Wilmington architects Whiteside, Moeckel & Carbonell in the International Style and completed in 1959. ^[8]

Athletics

Brandywine is a member of the Delaware Interscholastic Athletic Association (DIAA). ^[9] The Bulldogs compete in Flight B of the Blue Hen Conference with a full slate of teams in all three sports seasons: ^[10]

Brandywine's sports include: cross country, field hockey, football, soccer, volleyball, cheerleading, basketball, swimming, wrestling, cheerleading, indoor track, baseball, softball, golf, lacrosse, tennis, and track and field. ^[11]

Recognitions

In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked Brandywine #5,392 out of almost 24,000 public schools across the United States ^[12] and Niche ranked it in the top 50% best public schools for athletes in New Castle County. ^[13]

The school was recognized by the Blue Ribbon Schools Program for the 1982–1983 school year. ^[14]

Appearances in media

• First lady Jill Biden spoke from the classroom in which she formerly taught at the school (room 232) for her remote address to the 2020 Democratic National Convention. ^[15] Biden's husband Joe Biden was in the high school at the moment he formally was nominated for president during the convention. ^[16]

Notable alumni

• Dexter Boney, ^[17] former basketball player in the National Basketball Association and Continental Basketball Association
• Dennis Brockenborough, trumpet player for the Mighty Mighty Bosstones from 1990 to 2000
• John Gallagher Jr., Tony Award-winning actor best known for Spring Awakening
• Joan Goodfellow, film, television, and stage actress; mezzo-soprano
• Sean Patrick Thomas, actor
• George Thorogood, musician known for hits such as "Bad to the Bone"
• Christopher Voigt, synthetic biology pioneer and MIT professor
• Ben Warheit, Emmy-nominated actor, comedian, and writer, Late Night with Seth Meyers

Notable faculty

• Jill Biden, ^[15] Second lady of the United States 2009–2017, first lady of the United States (FLOTUS) 2021–present

References

1. "Brandywine High School". National Center for Education Statistics. Retrieved December 9, 2024.
2. Davidson, Henry F. (January 13, 1983). "From wagon path to office corridor". The Morning News. pp. 1–2. Retrieved July 5, 2021– via Newspapers.com.
3. "Brandywine High School". NCES. 2021. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
4. "Home". Brandywine High School. Retrieved June 21, 2021. 1400 Foulk Road Wilmington, DE 19803
5. "Registration and Enrollment: 2012-13 Feeder Patterns".
6. "State Report Cards - Delaware Department of Education". reportcard.doe.k12.de.us. Retrieved September 4, 2020.
7. "Meet the Principal". Brandywine School District. n.d. Retrieved September 13, 2022.
8. W. Barksdale Maynard, Buildings of Delaware (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2008): 32.
9. "DIAA State Championships 2020 Fall 12-23-20" (PDF). Delaware Department of Education. December 23, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
10. Greene, Sean (January 21, 2021). "Several schools concerned as potential vote approaches for Delaware football restructuring" . Retrieved July 5, 2021.
11. "Bulldogs Sports". n.d. Archived from the original on November 2, 2020. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
12. "Brandywine High School". U.S. News & World Report. 2021. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
13. "Brandywine High School Rankings". Niche. n.d. Archived from the original on July 5, 2021. Retrieved July 5, 2021.
14. Blue Ribbon Schools Program Archived March 26, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
15. Holveck, Brandon (August 18, 2020). "DNC in Delaware: Delaware officials to sue USPS and more updates". Delaware Online. The News Journal. Retrieved August 18, 2020.
16. @MSNBC (August 19, 2020). "Joe Biden formally nominated as 2020 Democratic presidential candidate at #DemConvention" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
17. "Dexter Boney". Real GM. n.d. Retrieved July 5, 2021.

External links

• Brandywine High School website
• Video clips of Brandywine Music and Drama performances

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