Our School

Frederick D. Thomas Middle School is located off Savannah Road in Lewes, Delaware. This is the third and newest middle school in the Cape Henlopen School District. Frederick D. Thomas Middle School is named after the Cape Henlopen School District's first African American school administrator. Thomas was a teacher, principal and community leader in Lewes from 1953 until his death in 1978. He began teaching in a one-room segregated schoolhouse and retired as the Cape district’s first African American administrator. In addition to teaching and simultaneously serving as principal of the DuPont Avenue School, Thomas was subsequently principal at Shields Elementary and then later at Lewes Junior High.