The top reported proficiency rate is 32% in English language arts. The lowest is 28% in Math.
Original Research by School Decision on E.l. Haynes Pcs - Es
E.L. Haynes PCS operates an elementary campus on Kansas Avenue in Northwest Washington, serving prekindergarten through fourth grade. It is a public charter school, part of the broader E.L. Haynes PCS network, and functions as a regular school rather than an alternative or specialized program. The campus sits in a residential stretch of the city, in a zip code where home values and rents run above both state and national benchmarks. For families considering the area, housing here commands a premium relative to much of the country, and the rental market has been inching upward while home values have eased slightly in recent months.
The enrollment is moderate for an early-grade campus. The largest share of students identifies as Hispanic, followed by a substantial proportion who identify as Black, then a smaller group of white students and a handful of children from other racial and ethnic backgrounds. This gives the school a multiracial composition that reflects the diversity of the surrounding neighborhoods. Several data points that parents often rely on were not reported. Free or reduced-price lunch counts were missing, as were individualized education program rates and English learner figures. Without these, it is hard to gauge the economic makeup of the student body or the share of children receiving special education or language support. A parent may want to ask the school directly about these populations.
On state testing, the most recent results come from the DC Long-Term Goals assessment for the current school year, covering grades three through eight. Because this campus only goes up to fourth grade, only third and fourth graders sit for these exams, which limits how much the results can tell you about the full school. In math, the proficiency rate was below the state midpoint for DC. In English language arts, the rate was somewhat higher but still fell short of the state's middle range. These are modest results, and because the school serves only early grades, the tested population is a slice of the whole enrollment. Multi-year trend data was not available, so there is no way to tell from the provided information whether proficiency is moving up or down over time. A parent considering this school would do well to ask how the leadership is addressing early literacy and numeracy, since those are the foundation everything else builds on.
The school serves no high school grades, so there is no graduation rate, no AP or dual-credit data, and no career-pathway information to assess. Those metrics simply do not apply here. Likewise, no course-access, staffing, discipline, or attendance figures were provided, so the portrait of day-to-day school climate is thin from the available data. Program offerings were not listed, which means we cannot speak to extracurriculars, arts, or extended-day options.
Washington itself is a government-driven city, with federal employment anchoring the economy and a daytime population that swells well beyond its resident count as commuters arrive from Maryland and Virginia. The city is laid out on the L'Enfant Plan, with broad diagonal avenues and a quadrant system that creates distinct neighborhoods rather than a single traditional downtown. The campus sits within this distributed urban fabric, meaning families here are choosing not just a school but a particular slice of a large, transit-connected city. The broader metro area ranks among the largest in the country, and the local economy draws on international organizations, associations, and professional services clustered around K Street.
We looked for recent parent-relevant changes at the E.L. Haynes PCS network level and found little in the available research, so rather than speculate, we left that out. What the data does show is an early-grade charter campus with a diverse student body, a residential Northwest location in a relatively expensive housing market, and state test results that sit in the lower-to-middle band for DC, based on a tested population of just two grade levels. Families drawn to a charter option in this part of the city may want to visit, ask about academic supports in the primary grades, and get a direct read on the school climate and special populations that the public data does not capture.
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