The top reported proficiency rate is 33% in English language arts. The lowest is 22% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Washington Global Pcs
Washington Global PCS is a public charter middle school in the District of Columbia, serving grades six through eight. It operates as its own local education agency, which is common for DC charter schools, and it runs a single campus. The enrollment is small for a middle school, which aligns with the school's stated model of small learning communities. The student body is overwhelmingly Black, with a small number of Hispanic students and a very small number of white and Asian students. Free-or-reduced-price lunch data was not available in the provided records, and IEP and English learner counts were also missing, so it is not possible to characterize the school's economic diversity or special-population proportions from this data.
Publicly reported descriptions of the school's program point to a college preparatory framework built around the International Middle Years Curriculum, with project-based learning, technology instruction, service learning, and foreign language offerings in Spanish and Korean. These are distinctive program choices for a middle school, particularly the Korean language option, and they suggest the school is oriented toward broadening students' academic and cultural horizons during the middle grades.
The school was named a 2023 U.S. Department of Education National Blue Ribbon School for closing the academic achievement gap, and a 2022 Bold Performance School by EmpowerK36, both for the same reason. These are publicly reported designations that signal the school has been recognized for moving students forward academically, particularly those who may have entered below grade level. That recognition is worth weighing alongside the raw proficiency numbers, which tell a more mixed story.
On the 2024-25 DC assessment, math proficiency was moderate in sixth grade, dropped sharply in seventh grade, and partially recovered in eighth grade. The seventh-grade math result stands out as a soft spot and is the kind of number a parent may want to ask about directly, since a single-year dip at one grade level can reflect a cohort issue, a staffing transition, or a curricular alignment problem. In English language arts, the school's proficiency rates were somewhat steadier across the three grades, with seventh grade showing the strongest result. Science results from 2022-23 for eighth grade were very low, with essentially no students reaching proficiency. Science is tested only in eighth grade in DC, and the most recent science data available is from an earlier school year, so it may not reflect current instruction. Still, a parent considering this school would be reasonable to ask how science is taught and assessed now.
There is no graduation rate to report because the school does not serve high school grades. There is no trend data available to show whether proficiency is improving or declining over time, so the current-year results are the only academic snapshot available.
Several categories of information that parents often ask about were absent from the data. No discipline data, attendance data, staffing ratios, course access details, or Title I status were provided. No housing market or community context information was available, which is consistent with the school being a DC charter that draws students from across the city rather than from a defined neighborhood zone. No comparison fact-set was provided to position the school against other DC middle schools or charter networks.
What the available picture supports is this: Washington Global is a small, intentionally structured middle school with a globally oriented curriculum and external recognition for gap-closing work, serving an almost entirely Black student population. Its ELA results are the steadier part of its academic profile, while math has a clear middle-grade weakness worth investigating, and science results from the most recent available year were very low. For a family drawn to the International Middle Years Curriculum model, small-school environment, and uncommon language offerings, the program design is real and specific. For a family focused on current proficiency outcomes, the math and science numbers are the part to probe.
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