In Delaware, school board service is an unpaid elected position with a term of 4 years (5 years for board members elected prior to Dec 2021). School board elections are nonpartisan, and are held on the second Tuesday in May each year.The Delmar DE School District, in the southwest corner of the state, functions in partnership with the Delmar Maryland School District. Delmar students in grades pre-K to grade 4 attend school in the Maryland district, while students in grades 5 through 12 attend schools under the jurisdiction of the Delaware district. Five Board of Education members are elected on a rotating basis (with one or two seats open each year) from the district at large.