Public Schools in District of Columbia
243 schools · 63 districts · 91,341 students
Largest Schools in District of Columbia
School data sourced from NCES (National Center for Education Statistics) via the Common Core of Data.
Jackson-Reed HS
Washington
District of Columbia International School
Washington
Columbia Heights Education Campus
Washington
Deal MS
Washington
Coolidge HS
Washington
Roosevelt HS
Washington
Lafayette ES
Washington
Dunbar HS
Washington
Eastern HS
Washington
Ingenuity Prep PCS
Washington
Frequently Asked Questions
District of Columbia has 243 public schools across 63 districts, serving 91,341 students.
The largest school in District of Columbia is Jackson-Reed HS with 2,153 students. District of Columbia has 243 public schools overall.
The average proficiency rate is 50%. Proficiency rates measure the percentage of students meeting state standards on standardized assessments, as reported by EDFacts.
All school data comes from the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) Common Core of Data for enrollment and school characteristics, and EDFacts for proficiency rates and graduation rates.
School data is sourced from NCES enrollment records and EDFacts proficiency and graduation rate assessments. No synthetic scores are used.
The this entity record above pulls directly from NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. K-12 school outcomes and enrollment distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.
The methodology behind every numeric value on this page is publicly documented on the NCES Common Core of Data and EDFacts portal and described in detail on this site’s methodology page. Refresh cadence varies by underlying series; the page surfaces the as-of date for each number so readers can trace any figure back to the source release.
Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. public schools and districts. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.