Summary:
Zip code 20010 in Washington, DC is served by a single high school option: Columbia Heights Education Campus, a combined middle and high school within District of Columbia Public Schools that serves grades 6 through 12 with an enrollment of 1,563 students. Because this is the only high school in the area, all insights focus on this campus, which is showing clear signs of improvement even as it faces significant academic hurdles.
Columbia Heights Education Campus has been steadily climbing the state rankings, moving from #21 in 2023–2024 to #15 in 2025–2026, and its graduation rate of 83.7% now outpaces both the DCPS district average of 77.6% and the state average of 78.7%. The school is also well-resourced, spending $31,052 per student with a favorable 10.4:1 student–teacher ratio. English Language Arts is the school's relative strength—36% of all students tested proficient in 2025–2026, and English II scored within a single percentage point of the state average. This suggests literacy instruction is working reasonably well, even if overall ELA scores still trail district and state benchmarks.
The most urgent concern is mathematics, where proficiency collapses as students advance: 6th graders hit 34.2% proficiency (above district and state averages), but that falls to 17.4% by 7th grade and just 7.3% by 8th grade, culminating in a startling 2.1% proficiency on Algebra I and 6.6% on Geometry end-of-course exams. Science is also a critical weakness at 1.44% proficiency versus the state's 13.4%. The bright spot is that the school graduates students at above-average rates despite these low test scores, indicating strong graduation support—though parents should weigh whether that support translates into genuine college and career readiness, particularly for students needing advanced math and science foundations.
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