Delaware, state file 08

Coverage summary

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

• 44Units in frameExhaustive frame
• 44Readable subsetThe frame less NOT VERIFIABLE and NOT AUDITED: every unit whose pages were read
• 1PROGRAM rows with a weak-evidence flag

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

District coverage

One row per unit in frame. The table opens on each unit's coverage code and flags; Detailed adds the evidence note, the source, how the page was read, the pass at which the code was set, and every other column. Search, filter by code or agency type, and page through every row.

• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication, not about service delivery.
• Obligations under IDEA are not evidence of a program.

Operator silence

Counted in both directions for each statewide provider: the provider's own published count, and the agencies in frame that name the provider as a Deaf and hard of hearing service mechanism, named outright.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Publication against identified population

The state does not publish counts by agency, so this measure is not reported; it is never supplied where the state does not publish them (FRM-005 section 3).

The FRM-002 measure is not supported for Delaware. The numerator cannot be formed because no agency-level identified count exists; the statewide 285 (federal) is the only denominator. What can be said is that the one unit publishing a deaf education school (Christina, the operator of the Delaware School for the Deaf) counts 105 pupils in the school's complex unit at the September 2025 count, that 86 school-age pupils with hearing impairment and 17 early-childhood pupils were in a separate school in fall 2024 in the federal file, and that no LEA other than Christina publishes a count.

State indicators

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Identified population over time

The count of identified students with hearing impairment and with deaf-blindness as the primary category, for each year the state publishes, as published. Where two instruments give a count for the same year, both rows are shown with their sources. No change between years is computed.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Fiscal channels

The channels at FRM-003, each with its status. Amounts are as published, nominal, and marked enacted or appropriated; they are not added across channels, and no per-pupil figure is computed.

Every figure a channel carries

Where a channel carries a series, each fiscal year as published with its basis (actual, revised, enacted, appropriated, or as the instrument names it). The figures are not added across years or channels.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Workforce

The standards and the supply behind a Deaf child's classroom: the qualification the state requires of an educational interpreter, the training and preparation programs, the teacher of the deaf credential, shortage designations, the paraprofessional, intervener, and audiologist standards, and the special education workforce. Each figure is as published; no ratio is computed.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

Schools and programs

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

The remaining columns (ages or grades, communication and language approach, ASL availability, residential service, enrollment, cost to family, governance basis, accreditation, leadership, notes, and primary source) are part of the licensed state file. Access tiers and the licence request route

The frame

The frame is every local education agency in the state's own enrollment file for SY2024-25, the last year the open data portal publishes (41: 16 geographic school districts, 3 vocational-technical districts and 22 charter schools, each charter its own LEA), confirmed by the SY2025-26 certified unit count (the same 41; the two Red Clay charters on their own lines; a Dover Air Force Base line that is a Caesar Rodney school pair) and by the Explore DE Schools directory (23 charter campuses; no charter opened for SY2026-27), with the Common Core of Data 2024-25 beside them; plus the 3 sub-entities audited separately at v1.0 (Charter School of Wilmington and Delaware Military Academy, reported inside Red Clay, and the Sussex Consortium under Cape Henlopen): 44 rows. The two operator units (the Delaware School for the Deaf and the Statewide Programs) are rows of the Schools & Programs sheet under Christina as fiscal agent, read as seeded sets, not LEA rows. Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence (9615) is NOT OPERATING under D-045 (charter revoked March 2026, closed June 2026, last roster year SY2024-25), counted in the 44 and out of the operating total. Every row was read on its own website in the rendered browser on 3 October 2026, the eighteen thinner reads re-read as seeded sets on 8 October, the directory's website field compared with the host read (D-043), and every keyword hit reviewed by the compiler against its capture.

Frame count

44

Frame

Exhaustive

The deaf and blind boundary decision

Deaf-blindness is carried where the instruments name it: the federal 618 file prints 50 pupils with a primary category of deaf-blindness for fall 2024 (48 school age, 22 of them in a separate school and 10 homebound; 2 early childhood); the state's last category count prints 47 (2017-18); the National Deafblind Child Count prints 65 for 2024 on its own definition. The three are recorded, not reconciled. 14 DE Admin. Code 925 section 6.8 defines the Deaf-Blind classification with the 6.10 hearing gate and a visual gate; the deaf-blind program sits with the Statewide Programs under Christina, funded by four related services units under 14 Del. C. section 1716A.

Reference years and frameworks

Enrollment and child count

Baseline is the 2024-25 IDEA Section 618 federal file (fall 2024); the state's last category count is 2017-18; the school's enrollment is the SY2025-26 certified unit count (September 2025).

Fiscal

FY2026 (year ending 30 June 2026) and FY2027 (year ending 30 June 2027), the two Budget Acts as signed; Christina's FY2026 Final and FY2027 Preliminary budget books.

Institutional framework

As in force on the run dates, 3 and 8 October 2026: the Delaware Code and the Administrative Code as Delaware Code Online and the Register of Regulations served them.

Frameworks applied

FRM-001 1.0, FRM-002 1.0, FRM-003 1.0, FRM-004 1.0, FRM-005 1.0, STD-002 1.2

The method as applied

Normalizations in force

Every normalization applied in this run: the FRM-004 set and the state's own standing false positives, as the file records them.

• MENTION requires a hearing term on a held capture (FRM-004): an eligibility recital (Capital, Red Clay, Colonial), a hearing screening schedule (the Sussex Consortium), an intake form with hearing and interpreter questions (Brandywine), a related service named as a D-037 list item (Cape Henlopen, NCCVT), or an ASL course or club (Polytech). A special education mechanism named with no hearing term codes NONE FOUND with the mechanism recorded; nine v1.0 MENTION rows move on this rule.
• The nine rows moved: Seaford, Edison, Providence Creek, Gateway, First State Military Academy, Great Oaks, Freire, Sussex Montessori and the Charter School of Wilmington (whose v1.0 nurse-page sentence was on no page read on either day).
• PROGRAM requires the unit's own hearing staff or service on its own site: Appoquinimink's HHPD Services page (certified Teachers of the Deaf/HH with the audiologist and ASL interpreters) is PROGRAM without the weak flag; Caesar Rodney's district-wide "Hearing Impaired" specialist, a staff list item with no name or caseload, is PROGRAM with the weak flag; Christina is PROGRAM as the operator (D-038) of the school, the Statewide Programs and the Early Learning Program on its own pages.
• A bare link to the school or to an outside body with no sentence of the unit's own codes NONE FOUND with the body recorded; the Section 504 definition (Sussex Tech), website-accessibility sentences (Charter School of New Castle) and "hearing" as a proceeding (attendance and disciplinary hearings) are standing false positives.
• NOT OPERATING under D-045 is decided from the state's roster instruments: Bryan Allen Stevenson School of Excellence is in the SY2024-25 file and the SY2025-26 unit count and absent from the Explore DE directory, its charter revoked in March 2026 and the school closed in June 2026 (v1.0 record); its site still answers and was read for the record.
• D-043: the Explore DE directory lists websites for the charters and registration links for the districts; where it carries none the CCD website field or the v1.0 host is the discovery method and the flag reads "no website in directory" (seven rows). Six CCD fields print abandoned k12.de.us hosts (Capital, Lake Forest, Laurel, Smyrna, Delmar, NCCVT); the current hosts were read. Two directory addresses redirect to a new domain (Academia Antonia Alonso, Freire).
• The two Red Clay charters (70, 79) and the Sussex Consortium (SC17) are coded from their own sites as separate rows with the reporting or operating LEA in the operator fields (D-038); the operator units (33-DSD, 33-SP) are entities, not coverage rows.
• The identified counts by LEA are not published in Delaware and every row carries null with the instrument named in the publication measure; the ASL course note records Appoquinimink and Polytech (found) and Providence Creek (found at v1.0, page 404 on 8 October 2026) without changing the code.
• NONE FOUND is a statement about publication on the unit's own site, not about service delivery: every Delaware pupil is counted in the sending district and the Statewide Programs publish no sending-district list.

The method and its known limitations

Six limitations bound this run. First, the identified population by local education agency is not published in Delaware and the FRM-002 publication measure cannot be computed; the federal 618 state file (fall 2024) is the baseline and the state's own category count stops at 2017-18. Second, the closure read is a keyword screen over the pages the probe reached (a per-unit page cap from the home page and the special-services paths; 405 pages on 3 October, 44 seeded pages on 8 October), so a program published deep in a site or inside a PDF the probe did not open can be missed; the seeded re-reads of the eighteen thinner units reduce but do not remove this, and five seed pages failed the same-origin fetch inside otherwise successful reads (both Red Clay charters, Laurel, Early College School's directory host, one Freire page). Third, the school's and the Statewide Programs' sites disallow automated fetching and were read as rendered seeded sets of 13 and 9 pages; the transition, LINK Center and several department pages were not among them. Fourth, the Register of Regulations answers its PDF paths with its JavaScript shell, so the regulations (764, 925, 1571, 1574) stand as rendered captures; the Christina FY2027 rate table is an image read by eye; the Part C grant letter does not print its amount and the Birth to Three child count is image-only. Fifth, several v1.0 pages were not re-read (the CEASD list, the Delaware Association of the Deaf, Hands & Voices, Nemours, the Department's 2023 and 2026 news releases, the portal's school-level series for the school) and stand on the v1.0 record, marked as such (source 48); the Division of Public Health's newborn hearing pages are gone and no successor was found. Sixth, no Internet Archive lookup was run in this run, so every source rests on the compiler's captures and digests alone; no unit is NOT VERIFIABLE and no deep-review mark is carried.

Disclosure

Novara Consulting Group LLC, the publisher of the Index, has no financial, partnership or funding relationship with any Delaware body named in this file. No request for this file is on the Index's record; it was built in the Index's own sequence (the v1.0 first-prompt file of 16 August 2026 and this v2.0 re-audit under NAT-004 v1.6 wave 1), unfunded by any outside party, with no editorial input from any body named. No Delaware body was contacted before the notice stage.

Compiled

October 29, 2026

Notice and correction record

Notice sent

October 9, 2026

Window closed

October 26, 2026

Responses

No response was received before the window closed.

Contact of record

Notice, comment, and correction on this state file reach the Index at the contact of record the file names.

Mailbox

notice@ndedi.org

Postal address

Novara Consulting Group LLC, 18140 Zane St NW #159, Elk River, MN 55330

Send a correction or a comment on this state file

Version history

• v2.0

  October 8, 2026, cause: re-audit

  Re-audit from the v1.0 standard (NAT-004 v1.6 section 1; D-058 wave 1; D-065). Frame re-verified on the state's instruments (41 LEAs plus 3 sub-entities, 44 rows; Bryan Allen Stevenson NOT OPERATING under D-045); closure read of every unit in the rendered browser on 3 and 8 October 2026 (49 reads, 405 pages, 111 two-file captures; 18 seeded re-reads); the compiler review of every keyword hit with the series rule that a MENTION needs a hearing term (3 PROGRAM, 8 MENTION, 32 NONE FOUND, 1 NOT OPERATING, 0 NOT VERIFIABLE); the federal 618 child count and personnel files read (285 hearing impairment, 86 school-age in a separate school; interpreters not available, audiologists 1.0 FTE); the Budget Acts' epilogue naming the school (146,400 dollars a year), Christina's four budget books, the Auditor's two reports, the Code chapters and regulations 764, 925, 1571 and 1574 read as served; the Fiscal and Workforce sheets built from nothing; data modules to the schema 1.3 contract (entities.py authored, de_data.py generated), the eight-sheet workbook, the narrative with Annex A, the trail with the delta table, reconcile.py and the STD-003 checklist; stop-three handback before notice.

• v1.0

  August 16, 2026, cause: first release

  First release on the first prompt (the Florida layout): the narrative, the six-sheet workbook and the verification trail; frame of 41 local education agencies plus 3 sub-entities from the SY2024-25 enrollment file; 2 PROGRAM, 17 MENTION, 24 NONE FOUND, 1 NOT VERIFIABLE; the v1.0 modules (entities.py, de_data.py, build_workbook.py, reconcile.py) in 04_Verification. The row was not written at the time; entered on 8 October 2026 from the v1.0 record (the changelog carried four columns and no row).

Checks record

Release checklist version

1.4

Run date

October 30, 2026

Reconciliation output

08_Delaware_reconciliation_output_2026-10-30.txt

Run ledger identifiers

R-2026-10-09-04, R-2026-10-09-05, R-2026-10-09-06

Custody and report checks

Report checks output

08_Delaware_report_checks_2026-10-29.txt

UK spellings in the Index's own prose

0

Files in the evidence manifest

671

Evidence manifest check

Pass

Sources with an archive snapshot

0

Sources with no archive snapshot

0

Archive lookups that failed

0

Deposit

DOI for version 2.0

10.5281/zenodo.23254317

DOI for every version (resolves to the newest)

10.5281/zenodo.23254316

Deposit record

zenodo.org/records/23254317

Deposited

October 9, 2026

Licence on the record

Summary layer under the free terms; the licensed files are restricted on the record (STD-004 v1.0 section 3) (licensed files restricted; metadata and the summary export open)

SHA-256 of the package as imported

cb3fede39fbb078855663d23f1bba025fcff731c070b82fa087f723d265c502d

Sources

Each source with its access date and its Internet Archive status as the archive status file recorded it at the run: a snapshot found, with its date and address; no snapshot; a lookup that failed; or not requested.

Gaps a records request could close

Each gap this file records that a request to a public body could close, with the record requested, the route, and the request as the file records it. A gap with an identifier has been asked; a gap without one has not yet been asked. The gap stands until the record is published.

As of October 8, 2026, the release date of this version.

The narrative profile

What the narrative covers

• In plain language
• Summary of findings
• Governance and legal framework
• The state school
• Communication and language approach
• The statewide outreach and early intervention layer
• The local education agency layer and the sub-entities
• The private and listening and spoken language sector
• The market layer
• What local education agencies publish
• Data, and what the state does not measure
• Fiscal allocation and legislative context
• The workforce
• Open items
• Notice and correction
• Sources
• Annex A. How to read this file

The licensed state file for Delaware carries the narrative profile of this version (12,724 words, rendered here for a licensee), the report and its evidence supplement as PDF and Word, and the workbook with every sheet, and it carries the same figures as this page. It is licensed per state, with a reduced-rate product for Deaf-led and disability organizations, and under the State Partner and national licences. How to request a licence

Downloads

Summary export, free

The frame, the tallies, the operator silence counts, the indicators, and the fiscal channels of this version. With them, every other part of this page that is free: the plain-language summary, the method as applied, the identified population over time, the workforce, the Schools and Programs directory, the records requests, the contact of record, and the archive status of the sources. The District Coverage rows and the identified population by agency are viewable on this page and are not in the export.

• Summary (CSV)

The licensed state file

These files are served to a signed-in account whose licence covers this state. Access tiers and the licence request route

Evidence captures, prompts, declarations, and drafts stay in the repository and are not published.