page_title: Newark High School (Delaware)
section_title: 1898-1924
hierarchical_section_title: Newark High School (Delaware) / School history / 1898-1924
caption_attribution_description: English: Building on Main Street, Newark, Delaware near the University of Delaware. Newark Academy building, predates U of Delaware
context_page_description: Newark High School is a public high school in Newark, Delaware and is one of three high schools within the Christina School District. It is one of the oldest educational institutions in the state, graduating its first class of students in 1893. In 2009 it saw its 20,000th student graduate. Newark is the only remaining "downtown" non-charter public High School in New Castle County.
  Newark has been named by Newsweek magazine as one of their "Top Schools in America." In 2006 Newark was ranked #521, in 2007 it was #271, and in 2008 it was #1041. This list represents the top 5% of the schools in the nation based on the number of AP, IB, and Cambridge exams taken divided by students graduating. The school was also named a GRAMMY Signature School in 2010 by the GRAMMY Foundation for its outstanding commitment to music education. Newark won the DIAA Sportsmanship Award in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006.
context_section_description: In 1898, the school population moved to the recently vacated Academy of Newark Building at the corner of Main and Academy Streets in Newark.  The Newark Academy, which had previously occupied the building, had closed the previous year.  The building itself was constructed in 1843 and was originally home to the Academy of Newark, a predecessor to the University of Delaware.
  While at the Academy Building, the only prolonged educational interruption in Newark's history occurred.  During October 1918, classes were suspended for three weeks due to the Spanish flu, which was particularly bad in the Philadelphia metro area.  No students or faculty members are believed to have died from the influenza pandemic in 1918.  A total of 109 students attended Newark that year (28 of whom were seniors) under the direction of seven faculty members.
  The daily routine at the Newark Public School (as it was called then) started at 8 am and ended at 4 pm.  All sports games and practices were held behind Wolf Hall on the University of Delaware campus since they had the only available sports fields in the area at the time.  Various traditions, most notably the first documented prom at Wolf Hall in 1923, began during this period in Newark's history.
  As the school continued to grow, a report on Delaware schools conducted by Columbia University ended up spurring the local community to build a more modern facility.  The report listed various problems, calling the building an "inadequate fire trap" with "narrow halls", "inaccessible" outhouses and a basement "deep in mud and water."
  Currently, the Newark Academy Building belongs to the University of Delaware and is home to the Office of Public Relations.  It has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1976.
caption: Academy of Newark building
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