Summary:
Washington Yu Ying PCS is the only school in this data set — a public charter elementary school in Washington, DC, serving grades PK through 5 with 701 students, and operating as its own single-school charter district, Washington Yu Ying PCS. Because the district and school are one and the same, all district-level results are effectively the school’s own scores, which makes interpreting the data straightforward: this is a genuinely high-performing school, not one riding on the strength of a broader district.
Washington Yu Ying PCS ranks among the very best elementary options in the city. It holds a 5-star district rating, placing 5th out of 46 DC districts (89th percentile), and a 4-star state ranking, placing 21st out of 124 DC elementary schools (83rd percentile) in 2025-26. Test scores back up those rankings. In ELA, 53.4% of students are proficient, well above the DC state average of 39.6%. In math, 53.8% are proficient, nearly double the state average of 28.2%. Science is even more remarkable: 61.54% of 5th graders are proficient, versus just 20.41% statewide — a gap of more than 41 percentage points. The school has been consistently strong, ranking between 18th and 23rd statewide each of the past three years, with a best finish of 18th in 2024-25.
The most notable pattern is in math. While the school vastly outperforms state averages at every grade, math proficiency declines as students progress: 59.8% in 3rd grade, 52.8% in 4th, and 47.4% in 5th — a 12.4-point drop across upper elementary. ELA, by comparison, was stable from 2024-25 to 2025-26 (54.0% to 53.4%), while math improved by 2.3 points overall. The school also benefits from a strong 10:1 student-teacher ratio and high per-pupil spending of $24,640, which likely supports its specialized language-immersion programming. Although free/reduced lunch data is not reported, the academic results alone make Washington Yu Ying PCS one of the top-performing elementary schools in the District of Columbia.
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