Summary:
Perry Street Preparatory PCS is a single public charter school in Washington, DC, serving grades PK through 8 in the Perry Street neighborhood of Northeast DC. The school also operates as the Perry Street Preparatory PCS district, serving 437 students with a student-teacher ratio of 10.1 to 1 and per-pupil spending of $30,751, indicating relatively small class sizes and strong financial resources.
On the 2025-2026 DC CAPE exams, Perry Street's overall ELA proficiency is 26.0% compared to the state average of 39.6%, while math proficiency is just 10.6% versus the state's 28.2%. The school's district ranking has declined from the 46th percentile in 2023-2024 (2 stars) to the 25th percentile in 2025-2026 (1 star), placing it in the bottom quarter of DC schools. However, ELA performance improves dramatically by grade level, rising from 10.0% proficiency in 4th grade to 48.9% in 8th grade, which actually exceeds the state average of 45.4%.
Math is the school's most serious challenge, with proficiency rates as low as 6.4% in 6th grade and 7.5% in 7th grade. Even the best math score, 15% in 4th grade, is more than 20 points below the state average. This weakness exists despite high spending and a low student-teacher ratio, showing that resources alone do not guarantee strong outcomes. The school has made slight progress in ELA over the prior year, but math slightly declined. Missing data on free/reduced lunch and some grade-level math scores limit a full evaluation. Overall, Perry Street shows a promising upward trend in literacy but requires urgent attention to mathematics across all grades.
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