This database was last updated in October 2018, and its latest data is from the 2015-16 school year. Researchers can find more recent data at the U.S. Department of Education’s Civil Rights Data Collection site.
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District of Columbia Public Schools
1200 First St NE, Washington, DC 20002
48.8K Students | 3,970 Teachers | 113 Schools
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District Composition
Opportunity
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AP Course Composition
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Students
87% Nonwhite Students
77% Students Who Get Free/Reduced-Price Lunch
69% High School Graduation Rate
24% High School Students Taking at Least One AP Course
3,283 students
0% Students in a Gifted & Talented Program
30% Students Taking the SAT or ACT
3,986 students
19% Students Enrolled in Physics
2,325 students
40% Students Enrolled in Advanced Math
5,129 students
25% Students Enrolled in in Geometry
3,215 students
40% Students Enrolled in Biology
5,278 students
25% Students Enrolled in Chemistry
3,153 students
4% Students Enrolled in Calculus
457 students
1% Students Enrolled in 8th-Grade Algebra
719 students
Teachers & Resources
12.3 Students for Every Teacher
12% Inexperienced Teachers
44% Chronically Absent Teachers
(Missed more than 10 days in a 180-day school year)
10 Average Number of AP Courses per School
9.2 Social Workers, Psychologists & Counselors per 1000 students
17 Schools With Credit Recovery Programs
1 School With Dual Enrollment Programs
0 Schools With Gifted & Talented Programs
2 Schools With International Baccalaureates
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Discipline
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Out-of-School Suspension Composition
Expulsion Composition
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Students
4,011 Total Out-of-School Suspended Students
8% of all students in this district
498 Total In-School Suspended Students
1% of all students in this district
4 Total Expelled Students
< 1% of all students in this district
13 Total Number of Students Who Received Corporal Punishment
< 1% of all students in this district
Outcomes & Resources
259 Average Days Missed to Out-of-School Suspension, per School
4.5Average Number of Days of an Out-of-School Suspension
163 Total Arrests
1 Average Arrests, per School
163 Total Referrals to Law Enforcement
1 Average Referrals to Law Enforcement, per School
1 Average Transfers to Alternative Schools, per School
7.6 Security Guards or Law Enforcement Officers per 1000 students
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Civil Rights Coordinators
Districts are required to designate specific employees to ensure schools are in compliance with federal civil rights laws. Here are the designated civil rights coordinators for this district.
Civil Rights Title VI Coordinator
(i.e. race, color and national origin discrimination)
- Lynice Hannah
- 202-719-6541
All Schools
Explore the disparities in discipline and academic opportunities across all schools in this district.
Sources & Notes
Sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights, Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, EDFacts, U.S. Department of Education’s Common Core of Data. Maps courtesy of Mapbox Community. Read our methodology →
Notes: The U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights occasionally updates the underlying dataset. ProPublica may update the interactive’s data in response.
Disparity scores are not available if there are too few students in a specific racial group to make a statistically significant calculation. They are also not available if data about a particular racial group was not reported. Some schools or districts reported an overcount of students in a disparity category (such as suspensions or AP courses) when compared with the total enrollment of that particular student group. In such cases, we also omit the disparity score.
Due to rounding, demographic breakdowns in composition charts may add up to more than 100 percent.
The racial categories we show data for are: Black, Hispanic, White, Asian/Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, Two or More Races, and Native American or Alaska Native. In some cases, we abbreviate the last three of these racial groups to Asian, Two+ Races, and Native Am.
Due to a technical issue with the Office for Civil Rights’ collection of data on sworn law enforcement officers in schools, the data for security staff may be an undercount.
As with any self-reported data, there may be errors in the federal Civil Rights Data Collection. Though districts are required to ensure the accuracy of their data, some may still report incorrect figures. Additionally, for some variables, the CRDC rounds the number of students for privacy reasons. In these cases, groups of students may represent a slight undercount or overcount.
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Data specific to high school testing or high school level courses (including geometry, biology, calculus, AP enrollment, SAT testing rates, etc.) is calculated out of total high school enrollment, while data for other classes (such as eighth-grade algebra) is calculated out of total student enrollment. Read more about our data in our methodology →