The top reported proficiency rate is 9% in English language arts. The lowest is 8% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on Savoy Es
Savoy Elementary School sits on Shannon Place in Southeast Washington, in the Anacostia area of Ward 8, and operates as a regular public school within the District of Columbia Public Schools system. It serves pre-kindergarten through fifth grade, making it an early-childhood-through-elementary pathway. As an elementary school, it has no graduation rate, no AP or career-technical offerings, and no high school state testing results. Those gaps reflect the grade band, not a missing performance record.
The school is small for its grade band, with enrollment drawn almost entirely from the surrounding neighborhood. The student body is nearly entirely Black, with a small Hispanic presence and no reported students in other racial or ethnic categories. Several key data points that would help a parent understand the school's context are not available in the provided data: free-or-reduced-price lunch counts, special-education rates, and English-learner figures were all missing. The same is true for staffing, attendance, discipline, course access, and program offerings. A parent looking into Savoy would want to ask the school directly about those supports.
On the most recent DC state assessments, proficiency results are low across every subject reported. In math, the share of students meeting or exceeding expectations was under one in ten. In English language arts, the result was similar, just under one in ten. Science results from the prior testing cycle, covering fifth grade only, placed proficiency in the lowest reported range, with no students scoring proficient among those tested. No multi-year trend data was available, so it is not possible to say from the provided information whether these results are improving, holding steady, or declining. The state did report participation near full enrollment for science testing. A parent may want to look into what academic support and intervention structures the school has in place, and how DCPS's district-level strategies are reaching this campus.
The broader district context offers some relevant threads. DCPS is in the middle of "A Capital Commitment 2023-2028," a five-year strategic plan aimed at improving academic outcomes, student connectedness, and post-secondary readiness across all its schools. Beginning in the 2025-2026 school year, DCPS rolled out a district-wide cell phone restriction tied to the Heads Up Distraction-Free Learning Amendment Act, limiting phone use during the school day. Also in Southeast, DCPS opened a new middle school addition at Leckie Education Campus in Ward 8, expanding middle-grade capacity in that part of the city. None of these initiatives is Savoy-specific in the data provided, but they frame the environment in which the school operates.
The housing market around Savoy's zip code is more affordable than much of the District. Typical home values in the area sit well below the DC-wide benchmark, closer to national levels, and have been declining year over year. Rents, by contrast, have been rising modestly. The estimated monthly mortgage on a typical home in this zip code exceeds the estimated monthly rent by a meaningful margin, which points to a market where renting remains the more accessible entry point for families. The area has seen economic pressures consistent with historically underserved neighborhoods in the eastern half of the District, and the publicly reported data on Washington as a whole describes a city where the federal government dominates employment, international organizations and lobbying firms anchor the central and northwest quadrants, and growth has been uneven across neighborhoods.
The provided data does not include a locale brief specific to Ward 8 or the Anacostia area; the available brief covers Washington as a whole and does not speak to the street-level conditions, amenities, or transit access immediately around Savoy. A parent would benefit from visiting the campus and the surrounding blocks to form that picture directly.
What the data does show is a small, community-rooted elementary school serving a nearly entirely Black student population in a Southeast DC neighborhood, with state assessment results that are low in every tested subject, against a backdrop of district-level reform efforts whose reach to this campus is not detailed in the available information. The missing data on staffing, programs, special populations, and school climate leaves a real gap. Families considering Savoy should treat a direct conversation with the school as the next step, particularly around academic intervention, classroom support, and what the school day looks like for a child at this campus.
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