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Black student results in District of Columbia Public Schools

Across 78 schools in District of Columbia Public Schools, 16.1% of Black students meet proficient. That is 0.4 points below the District of Columbia average for Black students.

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28.5%
All students
16.1%
Black
25.8%
Hispanic
62.9%
White
49.9%
Asian

Average across the 78 schools in District of Columbia Public Schools with reportable results, giving each school equal weight regardless of size. A group is omitted from a school when too few students were tested to report safely.

The distance inside one district

Among the 52 schools here with at least 25 Black student results, Shepherd Elementary School reports 57.9% of Black students meeting the standard. Wheatley Education Campus, in the same district, reports 0.7%. That is a 57.2-point spread across schools under one administration, serving one community, funded by one tax base.

Every school in District of Columbia Public Schools

Ranked by the share of Black students meeting proficient. Every group is shown alongside, because a school that serves one group well and another poorly is telling you something too.

SchoolAllBlackHispanicWhiteAsian
Shepherd Elementary School 68.6% 57.9% 8.6%
Hyde-Addison Elementary School 67.4% 56.9% 84.3%
Murch Elementary School 70.9% 53.3% 5.4% 87.2%
Maury Elementary School 71.3% 50% 87%
School-Within-School @ Goding 76.2% 50% 0.9%
Deal Middle School 76.2% 49.9% 55.5% 91.8% 18.2%
Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Capitol Hill Cluster) 49.5% 49.5% 69.2% 40.2%
Whittier Elementary School 48.6% 47.4% 0.5%
Hardy Middle School 64.4% 45.3% 52.2% 82% 81.6%
Eaton Elementary School 66.1% 41.7% 83.2%
John Francis Education Campus 41.9% 35.6% 32.7% 72%
Burroughs Elementary School 48.7% 34.6%
Barnard Elementary School 41% 34.5% 47.9%
Shirley Chisholm Elementary School 45.9% 34.4% 72.7% 72.7%
Dorothy I. Height Elementary School 32.8% 33.6% 0.1%
John Lewis Elementary School 39.2% 31.2% 0.4%
Raymond Elementary School 26.9% 31.2% 28.7%
Payne Elementary School 46.2% 29.7% 0.7%
Ida B. Wells Middle School 26.6% 28.9% 25.8%
Columbia Heights Education Campus Magnet 24.7% 28.3% 33.4%
Capitol Hill Montessori School @ Logan 37.6% 27.6%
Garrison Elementary School 40.8% 25.9% 0.3% 73.1%
Takoma Elementary School 28.2% 25.4% 20.6%
Watkins Elementary School (Capitol Hill Cluster) 39.9% 25.3% 88.1%
J.O. Wilson Elementary School 27.2% 23.6%
MacFarland Middle School 29.7% 23.5% 29.8%
Ludlow-Taylor Elementary School 58.7% 21.9% 83.2%
McKinley Middle School 21% 20.6% 27.3%
Eliot-Hine Middle School 31.1% 20% 0.5% 88.1%
Randle Highlands Elementary School 17.2% 17.4%
Jefferson Middle School Academy 19.6% 16.4%
Brookland Middle School 17.1% 16% 0.2%
Van Ness Elementary School 23.1% 14.2%
Cardozo Education Campus 14.3% 13.8% 16%
Excel Academy 13% 12.6%
Leckie Education Campus 16% 12.2%
Moten Elementary School 27.3% 11.7%
Marie Reed Elementary School 44.9% 11.1% 34.2% 0.9%
Kelly Miller Middle School 13.7% 10%
C.W. Harris Elementary School 11.6% 9.6%
Amidon-Bowen Elementary School 15.3% 9%
Hart Middle School 11.7% 8.2%
Lafayette Elementary School 82.9% 7.6% 87.5%
Powell Elementary School 39.6% 6.8% 33.9%
Walker-Jones Education Campus 21.8% 6.3%
Langdon Elementary School 28.3% 5.2%
Kramer Middle School 9.9% 5.1%
King Elementary School 13.2% 5%
Johnson Middle School 10.2% 4.3%
Sousa Middle School 10.6% 4%
Savoy Elementary School 0.1% 3.3%
Browne Education Campus 15.4% 2.4%
H.D. Cooke Elementary School 14.7% 1.8% 14.4%
Hendley Elementary School 12% 1.6%
Tubman Elementary School 25.3% 1.5% 34.6%
Wheatley Education Campus 12.1% 0.7%
Cleveland Elementary School 22.9% 0.4%
Seaton Elementary School 29% 0.4% 16.2%
Lorraine H. Whitlock Elementary School 28.9% 0.3%
Beers Elementary School 17.6% 0.2%
Burrville Elementary School 0.2% 0.2%
Kimball Elementary School 24.2% 0.2%
Nalle Elementary School 19.3% 0.2%
Noyes Elementary School 25.4% 0.2%
Patterson Elementary School 18.2% 0.2%
Plummer Elementary School 11.6% 0.2%
Stanton Elementary School 17.4% 0.2%
Thomas Elementary School 17.4% 0.2%
Brightwood Elementary School 17.1% 0.1% 18.6%
Drew Elementary School 6.2% 0.1%
Garfield Elementary School 10.1% 0.1%
Houston Elementary School 11.2% 0.1%
Ketcham Elementary School 2.5% 0.1%
Langley Elementary School 13.8% 0.1%
Lawrence E. Boone Elementary School 13.8% 0.1%
Simon Elementary School 8% 0.1%
Smothers Elementary School 12.9% 0.1%
Turner Elementary School 6.1% 0.1%

Flags show magnet, charter, alternative and virtual schools. Some campuses — early college and specialized academies among them — also admit by application, and this page cannot yet identify all of them. Check with the district before assuming a school is open to your address.

How to read this. District of Columbia suppresses results for groups with too few students tested — 153 schools have reportable Black student results. Coverage is grades 3–8; high schools are not included. Because every state sets its own proficiency standard, District of Columbia figures should not be compared against another state's.

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