DC Scholars PCS

DC Scholars PCS is the only school in this list, serving students in PK–8, with 478 students reported for 2024–2025. With no other listed schools for comparison, its latest results are best understood against statewide scores: in 2025–2026, the school was below the state in both all-grades ELA and math, with a larger shortfall in ELA—24% versus 40%, a 16-point gap, compared with 21% versus 28% in math, an 8-point gap.

Within the school’s grade-level results, middle-grade math was closest to the state, while grade 4 math and ELA had the largest gaps. In math, grades 6 and 7 were 24% versus 28% statewide (4 points behind) and 24% versus 28% (5 points behind), while grade 4 was 9% versus 36% (26 points behind) and grade 5 was 9% versus 30% (22 points behind). ELA trailed the state at every grade with a reported school result: the largest gaps were in grade 4, at 16% versus 39% (24 points), and grade 3, at 9% versus 31% (22 points); grade 6 had the smallest gap, at 31% versus 41% (10 points). The school’s grade 5 science result in 2024–2025 was 7%, compared with 20% statewide, a 14-point gap.

All-grades scores fell from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026 even as state scores rose: ELA went from 26% to 24%, and math from 25% to 21%; the school–state gaps widened by 4 points in ELA and 6 points in math. In contrast, SchoolDigger’s ranking improved from 103rd of 126 schools (18th percentile) in 2023–2024 to 77th of 124 (38th percentile) in 2025–2026—26 places higher—so the ranking trend does not match the latest score trend. For context, the school reported 69% directly certified for free meals in school year 2024–2025 and a student–teacher ratio of 13.6; these figures describe the school but do not establish why its results are as they are.