Christina School District


The Christina School District is a Delaware public school district located primarily in the Newark area and a non-contiguous portion of Wilmington.  The district office is located in the Drew Educational Support Center, 600 North Lombard Street, in Wilmington, Delaware, with Richard L. Gregg as the current superintendent.

History

The district was created on July 1, 1981, from the New Castle County School District after Legislation passed in 1980 permitted the State Board of Education to divide the New Castle County School District into smaller districts. Its administrative offices were formerly housed in the Old Newark Comprehensive School.
Lillian M. Lowery served as Superintendent of the Christina School District from 2006 until her appointment as Secretary of the Delaware Department of Education in 2009, and was subsequently appointed as Superintendent of the Maryland State Department of Education in 2012.

Schools

High schools

The District has been criticized for its strict interpretation of its “no weapons” policy. In 2009 it suspended a six-year-old for taking a Cub Scout camping utensil to school and wanted to send the child to its alternative placement school for 45 days as punishment. In 2007 the District expelled a seventh-grade girl for using a utility knife to cut windows out of a paper house for a class project. In 2011, a seventh grader was suspended and almost expelled for dyeing her hair.