Mount Pleasant High School (Delaware)

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Mount Pleasant High School
Address
Mount Pleasant High School (Delaware)
5201 Washington Street

Wilmington
,
Delaware
19809

United States
Coordinates 39°46′21″N75°30′17″W / 39.7726°N 75.5046°W / 39.7726; -75.5046
Information
TypePublic
MottoMount P.R.I.D.E.
Established1830(193 years ago) (1830)
School district Brandywine School District [1]
CEEB code 080180
NCES School ID100124000246 [1]
PrincipalCuri Calderón-Lacy (2019—present)
Faculty71.1 FTEs [1]
Grades9—12 [1]
Enrollment1,117 (as of 2021–22) [1]
Student to teacher ratio15.7:1 [1]
Color(s)Green and white
  
Athletics conference Blue Hen Conference - Flight A
MascotGreen Knights
Nickname Mount, MPHS
Rival Concord High School, Brandywine High School
YearbookThe Green Leaf
Website www.brandywineschools.org/mphs

Mount Pleasant High School (MPHS) is a public secondary school located in unincorporated New Castle County, Delaware, United States. [2] MPHS was the first public high school in Delaware to offer the International Baccalaureate program. [3]

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As of the 2021–22 school year, the school had an enrollment of 1,117 students and 71.1 classroom teachers (on an FTE basis), for a student–teacher ratio of 15.7:1. [1]

History

After Delaware passed the Free School Act in 1829, the state began pulling together their first public school system; the very first school in Mount Pleasant, located in School District #2, was built soon after. [4] The original schoolhouse still stands today and is located on an acre of land now part of Bellevue State Park. [5] The community continued to grow and required a larger school, so in 1865, a new building was built near Mount Pleasant Methodist Church. [4] This new school taught grades one through eight and gradually added nine through twelve as the students aged. [4]

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. [4] [6] [7] However, only grades one through nine were offered. [4] [6] By 1947, enough families had moved into the area that a separate four-year high school had become a necessity, so Mount Pleasant School transitioned into Mount Pleasant Senior High School and the lower grades were split between Silverside and Edgemoore Elementary Schools. [4] [8] Construction of a new high school building began in 1953 and, in September 1958, MPHS moved to its current location on Washington. [4] [9]

The school celebrated its 175th anniversary in a series of events during homecoming weekend, October 14 and 15, 2005, including the inaugural Mount Pleasant Hall of Fame. [10]

Academics

In 2021, U.S. News & World Report ranked MPHS #2,885 of more than 24,000 high schools nationally. [11]

MPHS' graduation rate for the 2018–2019 academic year was 90%. [11]

Athletics

MPHS competes in the Blue Hen Conference, Flight A. [12]

Activities

Mount Pleasant is home to WMPH 91.7 FM, which began broadcasting on October 1, 1969, and was Delaware's only public high school radio station until Thomas McKean High School began broadcasting at WHMS 88.1 FM in 1998. [13]

In 2023, Mount Pleasants's theatre department won exclusive rights in Delaware to perform Frozen as performed on Broadway. This was a result of the "United States of Frozen" competition, which granted one high school in each state the materials to perform the show for the very first time. [14]

Notable alumni

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 School data for Mount Pleasant High School, National Center for Education Statistics. Accessed December 1, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Home". Mount Pleasant High School. Retrieved 2021-06-21. 5201 Washington Street Extension Wilmington, DE 19809 - The school is not in the Wilmington city limits, as seen in a comparison with the zoning map as of February 2021.
  3. ↑ Fuetsch, Michele (March 20, 2004). "International Baccalaureate program moves kids closer to college". www1.udel.edu. Retrieved 2019-02-05.
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  6. 1 2 "Mt. Pleasant dist. to vote on new school". The Evening Journal. 1931-07-08. p. 10. Retrieved 2021-07-11– via newspapers.com.
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