Residential taxpayers in the Christina and Appoquinimink School Districts will see some property tax relief, but the districts chose to kept their 10% referendum tax increases in place.

The two districts were the last of the traditional public high school districts to act upon last week's legislation signed by state lawmakers allowing school districts to split property rates into residential and non-residential categories.

Christiana and Appoquinimink have different arguments for why they chose to request the maximum amount from taxpayers following the 2024 property tax reassessment, which has dramatically changed how much different property holders will pay, a process 40 years in the making.

In Appoquinimink, the district finds itself trying to fill a $4.9 million hole in a projected b

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