John Dickinson High School is a comprehensive four-year high school located on a 67-acre (270,000 m2) campus near Wilmington, Delaware in New Castle County. Built in the Pike Creek Valley in 1959, the school takes its name from John Dickinson, one of colonial America's patriots. One of seven high schools in the Red Clay Consolidated School District, JDHS currently has an enrollment of about 660 students and a staff of about 50.
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