Education
June 19th, 2026
- Public school enrollment numbers (overall and by sector) are from Office of the State Superintendent of Education (OSSE) Enrollment Audit Data for the 2025-26 school year, also reported on the Kids Count Data Center (enrollment by sector by ward was produced by “rolling up” the data in the School Summary tab of the enrollment audit file to the ward level). District wide student race data pull from this source as well (though not using the UPSFF number because that is not included). The enrollment numbers used to calculate school counselor ratios at the ward level also pull from this source.
- Student demographics including enrollment by ward by race in the ward snapshots pull from DC School Report Card data. The data on graduation rate, AP/IB participation and success, and post-secondary enrollment also draw on the 2024-25 school report card data.
- Teacher demographic data and rates of novice teachers are from the Educator Workforce Data Files for the 2025-26 school year.
- Information on school counselors pulls from the DCPS Performance Oversight responses published in spring 2026.
- Districtwide school discipline data pull from OSSE’s State of Discipline annual report.
- PARCC/MSAA and DC CAPE results pull from OSSE’s analysis where possible. For disaggregated data by ward (e.g. 3rd grade proficiency by ward, Black student proficiency by ward) the numbers are based on OSSE analysis reported during Performance Oversight (previously we had reported an estimate based on rolling up from school-level data, but because OSSE changed its data suppression rules during the pandemic, too many schools have data suppressed for us to do so any more).
- The data point on children who participated in an organized afterschool or weekend activity in the prior year uses National Survey of Child Health data for 2023-24 (two year average). The data points on parental support for public funding for afterschool programs pulls from the After School Alliance website.
- Data on seats in summer programs and on access to after out-of-school-time programs by grade span pull from the 2023 DC Policy Center needs assessment available at https://www.dcpolicycenter.org/publications/ost-needs-assessment (pages 51 and 49, respectively).
- Learn24 data pull from the Deputy Mayor of Education Performance Oversight responses published in spring 2025.
- 21st Century data pull from the DCPS SY18-19 21CCLC Afterschool End of Year (EOY) Report and responses to data requests.
- Information about student commuting patterns by ward pulls from EdScape Chapter 4: Trends in Distance to School , specifically the average (rather than median) walk distance for all grades excluding adult, for total public school enrollment as reported in the downloadable file available at this page. Ward snapshots currently reflect data for the 2024-25 school year. The share of public school students staying in their home ward pulls from https://edscape.dc.gov/page/student-commute-patterns and currently reflects 2023-24 school year data.
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