Rural and low-income schools

The Department of Education Office of Elementary and Secondary Education awarded the Department of Education Delaware $255,798 on July 1, 2026, under the Rural Education Achievement Program (CFDA 84.358), a formula grant designed to provide financial assistance to rural districts to carry out activities that improve the quality of teaching and learning in their schools. The award covers the period from July 1, 2026, through September 30, 2027, and is based in Leipsic, Delaware. The Department of Education Delaware receives this funding as a state educational agency and distributes subgrants to eligible local educational agencies within the state on a formula or competitive basis. The program targets rural local educational agencies where either the total number of students in average daily attendance is fewer than 600 or each school is located in a county with a population density below 10 persons per square mile, or where at least 20 percent of school children ages 5–17 come from families with incomes below the poverty line and all schools are designated with specific school locale codes under the National Center for Education Statistics methodology.