plant. The General Motors Wilmington Assembly automobile manufacturing facility was located on Boxwood Road just north of the town and operated from 1947 to 2009. In October 2009, Fisker Automotive announced it would begin manufacturing electric automobiles at the Boxwood Road location. However, the plant never opened and was later demolished to make room for an Amazon warehouse. Education Newport is served by the Red Clay Consolidated School District for public education. Richey Elementary School (grades K–5) is located in town proper off of East Highland Avenue. Public school students in Newport in grades 6 through 8 attend Stanton Middle School in Stanton while students in grades 9 through 12 attend John Dickinson High School northwest of Newport in Pike Creek. Conrad Schools of Science and Delaware Military Academy, magnet high schools, are located just outside the town. Richardson park elementary school is also located just outside of the town. Infrastructure Transportation Delaware Route 141 is the main road providing access to Newport. It follows an elevated freeway on a north–south alignment through Newport, with James Street and Marshall Street serving as frontage roads. DE 141 heads south to an interchange with Interstate 95, Interstate 295, and Interstate 495 just to the south of Newport and continues on to New Castle, while it heads north and east as a western bypass of Wilmington to U.S. Route 202 in Fairfax. Delaware Route 41 and Delaware Route 62 form the majority of the Delaware portion of the Newport Gap Pike which connects Newport to Gap, Pennsylvania and also serves as a local route to Lancaster, Pennsylvania as it eventually absorbs Lancaster Pike (Delaware Route 48) in Hockessin. Delaware Route 4 serves as the main east–west road through Newport, passing through the town on the one-way pair of Market Street eastbound and Justis Street westbound and becoming Newport Pike outside the town. DE 4 heads northeast to Wilmington and southwest to Christiana and Newark. DART First State provides bus service to Newport along Route 5, which follows DE 4 and heads northeast to Wilmington and southwest to the Christiana Mall. The Northeast Corridor rail line that carries Amtrak and SEPTA Regional Rail's Wilmington/Newark Line passes through Newport but no trains stop in the town; the nearest station serving Amtrak and SEPTA trains is Wilmington station. Utilities Delmarva Power, a subsidiary of Exelon, provides electricity and natural gas to Newport. Suez Delaware, a subsidiary