The top reported proficiency rate is 18% in English language arts. The lowest is 0% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on Seed Pcs
SEED PCS operates as a single-school charter district in Washington, DC, serving high school grades nine through twelve. The one school in the district, The SEED PCS of Washington DC, is open and active. The enrollment is small for a high school, with cohort sizes that shrink from the ninth grade to the twelfth, which is fairly typical as some students transfer or leave over the high school years. The student body is almost entirely Black, with a small Hispanic presence and no other racial or ethnic groups represented in the reported data.
The academic picture is thin and difficult to read from what was provided. The state assessment results on file date to the 2018-19 school year and cover seventh and eighth grade math, ELA, and science. Those results were low. In seventh grade math, under a fifth of tested students reached proficiency. Eighth grade math showed no proficient students. Seventh grade ELA proficiency was higher but still modest, and eighth grade ELA was lower still. Eighth grade science also showed no proficient students. Participation rates were high across the board, so non-participation does not explain the results.
There is a mismatch worth naming plainly. The district currently lists its grade span as nine through twelve, yet the only assessment data available is for grades seven and eight. This likely reflects a grade reconfiguration or a prior year when the school served lower grades, but the data does not state the reason. What this means for a parent is that the state testing snapshot on file predates the current grade band and does not tell you how students perform at the high school level. No graduation rate was provided. No multi-year trend data was available to show whether results have improved or changed over time.
Several other data points that parents often rely on are missing. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility was not reported, so the economic profile of the student body is unclear from this data. Special education and English learner rates were also not available. No information was provided on course offerings, AP or dual-credit access, career pathways, extracurricular programs, staffing ratios, discipline, or attendance. No civil-rights data was included. No locale brief or community economic context was attached, which is not unusual for a DC charter entity that does not map to a single neighborhood in the way a traditional district would.
The district brief noted that a search for recent parent-relevant changes turned up only static profile and directory information, with no evidence of lasting programmatic or structural changes in recent years. No neighbor comparison was provided, so there is no positioning against other DC charter or traditional public schools in this dataset.
What a parent can take from what is here is limited. SEED PCS is a very small, nearly entirely Black high school charter district in DC. The only academic data on file is several years old and from grades the school may no longer serve, and that data showed low proficiency. A parent considering this school would want to ask the school directly for current high school assessment results, graduation and college-enrollment outcomes, course offerings, and support services, since none of that appears in the available data. The publicly available profile confirms the school is open and operating, but the picture a family needs to make a decision goes well beyond what was provided here.
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