The top reported proficiency rate is 22% in English language arts. The lowest is 15% in Science.
Original Research by School Decision on E.l. Haynes Pcs - Ms
E.L. Haynes PCS is a charter network in Washington, D.C., and its middle school campus sits on Georgia Avenue NW in the upper part of the city, serving grades five through eight. The enrollment is modest for a middle school, with the largest cohorts in grades six and seven. The student body is predominantly Hispanic, with a substantial Black population and very small white, Asian, and multiracial representation. The school does not report free-or-reduced-price lunch counts, special education rates, or English-learner figures in the data available, so a parent seeking to understand the economic and linguistic makeup of the classroom would need to ask the school directly.
On the most recent D.C. state assessments, reported for the 2024-25 year, proficiency was low in both core subjects. Math proficiency sat well below what most families would hope to see, and English language arts was only somewhat higher but still in a low range. Science results from an earlier testing cycle tell a similar story, with grade five proficiency in a low band and grade eight results near the very bottom of the reporting range. The state does not publish trend data for this school that would allow a clean year-over-year comparison, so whether these numbers represent a dip or a longer-standing pattern is unclear from the available data. Participation rates on the science assessments were high, which suggests the results reflect most enrolled students rather than a narrow slice. This is an area where a parent may want to look into this further with the school, asking what instructional supports and intervention strategies are in place and how the network is responding to these results.
Because E.L. Haynes PCS is a middle school serving only grades five through eight, there is no graduation rate to report, and the school does not offer AP or dual-credit coursework, which is expected for this grade band. No data on course access, staffing ratios, attendance, or discipline was available, and the civil-rights data section was empty, so those dimensions of school climate cannot be assessed here. The school is part of a charter management organization rather than the D.C. traditional public school system, which gives families a choice-based enrollment pathway rather than a neighborhood assignment.
The surrounding neighborhood sits in a part of Washington where housing costs run above the D.C. state benchmark and well above national levels. Typical home values in the school's zip code are elevated relative to much of the country, and rents are also on the higher side, reflecting the broader D.C. market. The area is transit-served and urban, part of a city where civic and institutional life is distributed across many neighborhoods rather than concentrated in a single core. Georgia Avenue is a major north-south corridor with a history of working-class and immigrant communities, and the campus location puts it within reach of several bus lines connecting to the wider transit network. The school's zip code has seen a slight decline in home values year over year, while rents have edged upward modestly, consistent with a cooling-but-still-expensive urban housing market.
We looked for the district's strategic priorities or recent programmatic changes but found little, so we left it out rather than guess. No comparison fact-set was provided for this school against other D.C. charter or traditional campuses, so positioning it relative to peer schools is not possible from the data on this page. For a family considering E.L. Haynes PCS for middle school, the picture that emerges is of a small, predominantly Hispanic and Black charter campus in an expensive urban neighborhood, with current academic proficiency results that are low across subjects and limited publicly available data on the support structures that might explain or address them.
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