Summary:
The Idea Pcs district in Washington, DC, contains just one school: Idea Pcs, a high school serving grades 9–12 with an enrollment of 350 students.
Because there is only one school in the district, school and district figures are identical. Idea Pcs is a small, well-funded high school with a student-teacher ratio of 9.7 and per-student spending of $36,038, which is exceptionally high. Its 2024–2025 graduation rate of 87.5% is well above the state average of 78.7%. Yet test proficiency rates are far below state averages: only 14.9% of students were proficient in English Language Arts versus 39.6% statewide, and just 7.1% were proficient in mathematics versus 28.2% statewide. Subject-level results show English I proficiency at 15.7%, slightly above English II at 14.3%, while Algebra I proficiency was 11.8%, close to the state's 12.0%.
The most alarming subject is geometry, where only 2.7% of students are proficient compared to 14.7% statewide. Math proficiency did improve from 3.8% to 7.1% year over year, but ELA proficiency declined sharply from 22.5% to 14.9%. Ranking trends have been mixed: Idea Pcs ranked 22nd out of 36 schools in 2025–2026 (39th percentile, 2 stars), following a 26th-place finish in 2024–2025 and a stronger 19th-place finish in 2023–2024 (44th percentile, 3 stars). Overall, Idea Pcs graduates students at rates above the state average and provides small classes and high funding, but the large gap between graduation success and academic proficiency—especially in math—is a serious concern. Parents should know that while a student is likely to graduate, they may not be performing at grade level on standardized tests, and literacy outcomes have been trending downward.
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