Red Clay Referendum Votes By School
We finally have the numbers.
| For authority to issue bonds | ||||
| Polling Place | Question 1: Renovation and/or additions to various schools | Question 2: To build a new school | ||
| For the Bond Issue | Against the Bond Issue | For the Bond Issue | Against the Bond Issue | |
| A. I. duPont High School | 303 | 158 | 253 | 201 |
| A. I. duPont Middle School | 75 | 23 | 59 | 38 |
| Baltz Elementary School | 171 | 163 | 129 | 191 |
| Brandywine Springs School | 502 | 148 | 434 | 202 |
| Cab Calloway School of the Arts | 557 | 95 | 464 | 184 |
| Carvel State Office Building | 19 | 32 | 18 | 34 |
| Conrad Schools of Science | 262 | 236 | 192 | 299 |
| Dickinson High School | 199 | 253 | 135 | 309 |
| Forest Oak Elementary School | 238 | 124 | 200 | 156 |
| H. B. duPont Middle School | 437 | 257 | 349 | 333 |
| Heritage Elementary School | 237 | 21 | 193 | 61 |
| Highlands Elementary School | 274 | 144 | 214 | 199 |
| Hilltop Lutheran Community Center | 6 | 7 | 7 | 6 |
| Lewis Elementary School | 70 | 18 | 44 | 36 |
| Linden Hill Elementary School | 576 | 193 | 511 | 238 |
| Marbrook Elementary School | 261 | 231 | 205 | 277 |
| McKean High School | 396 | 424 | 303 | 497 |
| Mote Elementary School | 200 | 75 | 144 | 95 |
| North Star Elementary School | 778 | 361 | 682 | 440 |
| Richardson Park Elementary School | 224 | 97 | 196 | 115 |
| Richey Elementary School | 156 | 61 | 123 | 93 |
| Shortlidge Academy | 90 | 9 | 70 | 24 |
| Skyline Middle School | 281 | 155 | 195 | 235 |
| Stanton Middle School | 164 | 151 | 130 | 179 |
| Warner Elementary School | 156 | 44 | 108 | 93 |
| Absentee | 43 | 14 | 40 | 17 |
| Total | 6,675 | 3,494 | 5,398 | 4,552 |
I’ve highlighted the vote totals and voting places where the votes went against the new school. Not sure what story this tells, if any. Thoughts?
Tags: Education
And it looks like there were plenty of slim majorities too:
15 at Warner
1 at Hilltop
15 at Highlands
16 at HB duPont
What I don’t know is the location of each of these schools. But the margins for certainly look slimmer at some of the city locations.
HB is in Hockessin, a middle school, Warner in the city limits, which currently has ‘extra capacity’. And why so few votes at Warner? And the HB vote goes contrary to your belief that the “hockessin” parents dont want to send their kids to be with the ‘black kids’ of the city.
Lordy, you doth protest too much.
Looks like I got the right people out in my area. Stanton and Skyline Middle
One other thing to ask is which of these schools had those *parents* events yesterday? Highland has something that was well attended and Richardson Park had a Bingo Night. Did Warner do anything to entice parents into the building?
Hmmm. Looks like the beginnings of a PTA outreach strategy… ;P
Small margins at Lewis & Hilltop, too (small turnout too, obvs).
Highland had a “smorgasbord,” no word on whether pizza was served. Linden Hill had a Bingo Night.
HB had a student art/academic show. Also performances by band, choir, and cheerleaders. Now if they all performed at once, that would be something 🙂
Highlands actually had a K-1 musical – “Earthworms Make America Great”. Standing room only in the auditorium that seats like 400. Plus the bake sale which was a 5th grade project to raise money for their annual trip to DC which is always a fundraising slog and a half. That was nice. (Shrewd of the district to force our hands to do this stuff but politics be damned, who ever doesn’t enjoy it?)
AI Middle had an art show, Brandywine Springs had a Swap Shop.
Just received a tip…
An 18 year old Red Clay student was pulled out of class yesterday and informed she had the opportunity to vote. She was told what the votes were “for.”
This is ridiculous.