Summary:
Zip code 20010 is home to just one middle school, E.L. Haynes PCS - Middle School, serving grades 6 through 8 within the E.L. Haynes PCS network. This public charter school has 329 students and has shown a dramatic turnaround in the most recent school year, jumping from a 1-star rating in 2024–2025 to a 3-star rating in 2025–2026, and moving from the 20th to the 52nd percentile statewide.
In English Language Arts, the school has made strong gains, with proficiency rising from 22.1% to 33.5% over the past year. That now exceeds the district average of 31.3%, though it remains about 6 points below the state average. Reading skills also improve as students advance, with 8th graders reaching 39.4% proficiency compared to 29.9% for 6th graders. Mathematics remains a major challenge: proficiency is essentially flat at around 17–18% and falls below both district and state averages. More concerning, math proficiency declines by grade level, dropping from 19.6% in 6th grade to 16.6% in 8th grade. Science performance is alarmingly low, with just 2.91% of 8th graders proficient in 2024–2025, compared to a state average of 8.14%.
The school is well-resourced on paper, spending $31,522 per student and maintaining a student-to-teacher ratio of only 9.1 to 1. Yet these resources have not translated into strong math and science results. Interestingly, the middle school as a whole ranks below its own network; E.L. Haynes PCS ranks in the 63rd percentile overall, while the middle school sits in the 52nd percentile. No free/reduced lunch data is available, so it is difficult to contextualize achievement by poverty level. For parents, the key takeaway is that this school shows real momentum in reading and overall ranking, but math and science need significant attention.
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