High Schools in Seed Pcs

Seed Pcs is home to a single high school, The SEED PCS of Washington DC, a public charter school serving grades 9–12 in Washington, DC, with an enrollment of 245 students. This school is one of the lowest-ranked in the district, and its academic proficiency rates are strikingly low across every subject. In the 2025–2026 school year, just 4.4% of students were proficient in English Language Arts and only 3.1% were proficient in math, compared with state averages of 39.6% and 28.2%. The Seed Pcs district ranks 46th out of 46 districts in DC, placing it dead last, and the school itself ranked 35th out of 36 DC high schools in the same year.

Despite these low test scores, the graduation rate offers a small bright spot: 73.8% of students graduated in 2024–2025, which is below the state rate of 78.7% but slightly above the district rate of 73.0%. The school also spends an exceptionally high $67,610 per student, which is far above typical spending levels, yet academic outcomes remain among the worst in the state. With 245 students, this amounts to roughly $16.6 million in annual spending, raising serious questions about the return on that investment. The student-teacher ratio of 17.1 is not especially low, so the high per-pupil spending is not explained by unusually small class sizes.

Performance also appears to be declining over time. The school earned 2 stars and ranked at the 26th percentile in 2022–2023, but by 2024–2025 it ranked last among 35 schools, and in 2025–2026 it dropped to 35th of 36. Between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026, all-grade ELA proficiency fell from 7.5% to 4.4%, and math fell from 4.8% to 3.1%. Math is especially weak, with Algebra I and Geometry proficiency at 3.3% and 3.0% respectively, both far below already low state averages. No free/reduced-price lunch data is available, so the socioeconomic context cannot be fully assessed, but the combination of very high spending and very low academic results makes this school a clear outlier that needs urgent attention.