Summary:
ZIP code 20024 in Washington, D.C., is served by four schools — one elementary, two middle, and one high school — enrolling 1,310 students across both District of Columbia Public Schools and public charter schools. The schools are Amidon-Bowen Elementary School, Jefferson Middle School Academy, Washington Global PCS, and Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts.
Washington Global PCS stands out as the strongest overall performer, earning the best state rank among the middle schools (22nd out of 67) and the only school in the ZIP code to exceed the D.C. state average in English Language Arts with 41.0% proficiency. It also leads the area in math at 24.8%, though still slightly below the state average. Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts, the only high school, shows a stark split: ELA proficiency is a respectable 34.9% with a graduation rate of 77.6%, but math proficiency sits at just 2.3% — a 25.9-point gap from the state average. Jefferson Middle School Academy is the largest school in the area but posted declining math scores at 10.6% proficient, while Amidon-Bowen Elementary School made the biggest math improvement, rising 5.7 points to 17.2%.
Mathematics is the defining challenge across this ZIP code, as no school reached the state average in that subject. Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts spends the most per student ($32,581) yet posts the lowest math proficiency, illustrating that funding alone does not drive outcomes. On a positive note, three of the four schools have improved or held stable state percentile ranks over the past three years, and ELA scores are trending upward at every school.
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