Summary:
Lee Montessori PCS has two elementary schools in Washington, D.C.: Brookland serves prekindergarten through grade 6 and enrolls 298 students, while East End serves prekindergarten through grade 5 and enrolls 246. The most important difference is in ELA: in 2025–2026 fourth grade, Brookland had 65% proficient and East End 29%, a 37-point gap.
Brookland stands out for ELA, while East End had lower reported results. In fourth-grade ELA, Brookland was 26 points above the state rate of 39%, while East End was 11 points below it. Brookland’s all-grades ELA rate was 52%, compared with East End’s 20%, though their different grade spans make that comparison less direct. Brookland’s results are not uniformly strong across grades and subjects: its third-grade math rate was 12%, 29 points below the state. East End’s third-grade ELA rate was 22%, 9 points below the state.
ELA results rose at both schools between 2024–2025 and 2025–2026: Brookland gained 10 points and East End gained 6. The two-school all-grades ELA average increased from 28% to 36%, narrowing the average shortfall from the state from 10 points to 4. East End remained below the state in all-grades ELA, while Brookland was above it; Brookland’s all-grades math rate was also 6 points above the state, but no school-level East End math rate is provided for 2025–2026. SchoolDigger lists both schools at rank 13 of 46 and four stars. Their student-teacher ratios are 15.2 at Brookland and 14.8 at East End; in 2024–2025, 15% of Brookland students and 38% of East End students were directly certified for free meals. Because the schools serve different grade spans, all-grades rates are not a perfect like-for-like comparison.
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