Summary:
Digital Pioneers Academy PCS has two schools in Washington, DC: Johenning, serving grades 6–8, and Capitol Hill, serving grades 9–12, with 684 students combined. In 2025–2026, both schools’ all-grades proficiency results were below state results: their two-school averages were 31% in English language arts (ELA), compared with 40% statewide, and 12% in math, compared with 28% statewide. The largest shared concern is math, where the schools’ average was 17 points below the state, versus 8 points below in ELA.
Johenning had the higher 2025–2026 all-grades result in both subjects: 36% in ELA and 14% in math, compared with 27% and 9% at Capitol Hill—leads of 9 and 5 points. Within Johenning, eighth-grade ELA was a relative strength at 42%, 3 points below the state; sixth-grade math was the weakest listed result, at 9%, 19 points below the state. Capitol Hill stands out for graduation: its 2024–2025 rate was 83%, above the state’s 79% and the district’s 81%. Since the schools serve different grade spans, their all-grades results are not a like-grade comparison.
Results moved in different directions over time: Johenning’s ELA rose 11 points from 2024–2025 to 2025–2026, while Capitol Hill’s fell 8 points; math declined by 2 points at each school. SchoolDigger’s percentile ranking also fell for Capitol Hill, from 71 in 2024–2025 to 51 in 2025–2026, while Johenning’s rose from 40 in 2023–2024 to 46 in 2025–2026. As context, in 2024–2025 Johenning had 297 students and a 9.5 student-teacher ratio, compared with Capitol Hill’s 387 students and 15.7 ratio. Directly certified for free meals in 2024–2025 were 77% of Johenning students and 71% of Capitol Hill students; these figures describe context and do not explain the test results.
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