The top reported proficiency rate is 72% in English language arts. The lowest is 37% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Washington Latin Pcs
Washington Latin PCS is a charter school network in the District of Columbia serving grades five through twelve across three schools: a middle school, an upper school, and the newer Anna Julia Cooper campus. The enrollment is mid-sized for a DC charter, and the student body reflects a relatively balanced racial mix, with white students forming the largest group and Black students forming a substantial second group, alongside smaller Hispanic, multiracial, and Asian populations. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available, and information on students with individualized education programs and English learners was not reported, so the picture of how the school serves its most vulnerable populations is incomplete from what we have.
On the academic side, English language arts is a clear strength. Across all four tested middle-grade levels, proficiency rates are consistently strong, with the seventh grade in particular showing very high proficiency. Math results are more uneven. The middle grades land in a solid range, with sixth and seventh grade performing well, but fifth grade math proficiency is notably lower, the weakest result in the dataset. A parent considering the school for a fifth grader may want to look into how the school supports students transitioning into its math program at the entry grade. Science results come from an earlier testing year and present a similar split: fifth grade science was reasonably strong, while eighth grade science proficiency was quite low. Because the science data is from a different year and a different assessment cycle, and because the tested counts for eighth grade science were small, a parent may want to ask the school for more current science results before drawing firm conclusions.
No graduation rate was available in the data, even though the school serves high school grades through twelve. This is a gap a family would want to fill directly with the school, particularly given that the upper school enrollment thins somewhat in the later grades.
The most defining feature of Washington Latin in recent years is its expansion. In 2022, the network opened its second campus, the Anna Julia Cooper Campus, moving from a single-site operation to a two-campus network. According to publicly reported information from the school, the Cooper Campus is growing one grade per year and will reach a full fifth-through-twelfth configuration by the 2028-29 school year. This expansion roughly doubles the number of seats available through the MySchoolDC lottery for families seeking what the school describes as a classical, liberal-arts charter education, and it created a second geographic access point in Ward 5 for families across all eight DC wards.
The Cooper Campus recently secured a permanent home. The DC Public Charter School Board approved a charter amendment designating a site on Harewood Road as the campus's permanent location, with occupancy beginning in the 2025-26 school year. The campus had been operating in a temporary location in the Edgewood neighborhood and is now moving to a reimagined campus on the grounds of a former monastery and the former Kirov Academy of Ballet, just off North Capitol Street. This gives families long-term certainty about where the newer campus will be, which matters for families weighing whether to apply to or stay at a campus that is still building toward its full grade range.
No housing data, locale brief, or community economic context was available for this entity, so we cannot speak to the surrounding residential market or neighborhood conditions. No program offerings beyond the classical liberal-arts framing were detailed in the data, and no information on course access, discipline, staffing, or attendance was provided. No comparison set against other DC charter networks was available either, so the proficiency figures stand on their own without a peer benchmark. Families considering Washington Latin should weigh the strong ELA performance, the mixed math picture, and the still-developing Cooper Campus against what they can learn directly from the school about graduation outcomes, special population services, and the day-to-day academic experience.
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