Day: December 4, 2019

101 N Street NW, Washington, DC 20001

Type of school: Public
Grades: 9-12
Enrollment: 667 (2018-19)
Permanent DCPS Programmatic Capacity, 1135; Unfilled Seats, 468 (2018-19)
Boundaries

Percent of in-boundary participation: 52%

Schools attended by in-boundary students (2017-18)

NAME OF SCHOOL	# of Students
McKinley Technology High School	128
Woodrow Wilson High School	109
Washington Mathematics Science Technology PCHS	90
Columbia Heights Education Campus 9-12 (CHEC)	88
Duke Ellington School of the Arts	87
Paul PCS – International High School	83
KIPP DC – College Preparatory Academy PCS	82
Benjamin Banneker High School	75
Cardozo Education Campus	70
Washington Leadership Academy PCS	69
Friendship PCS – Collegiate Academy	65
School Without Walls High School	65
Washington Latin PCS – Upper School	59
Goodwill Excel Center PCS	53
Capital City PCS – High School	53
Luke C. Moore High School	52
Eastern High School	48
District of Columbia International School	46
Roosevelt High School	42
E.L. Haynes PCS – High School	39
Ron Brown College Preparatory High School	37
Cesar Chavez PCS for Public Policy – Capitol Hill	35
Phelps Architecture, Construction and Engineering High School	35
Coolidge High School	34
Kingsman Academy PCS	32
IDEA PCS	30
Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS	29
Cesar Chavez PCS for Public Policy – Parkside High School	28
Washington Metropolitan High School	28
Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts	27
H.D. Woodson High School	14
BASIS DC PCS	14
Ballou High School	13
Maya Angelou PCS – High School	12
SEED PCS of Washington DC	10

Physical Activity Time: 160 minutes a week

Before Care/ After Care: None

PARCC by Race

PARCC Scores 2018-19, % meeting & exceeding expectations
	Black	White	Hispanic	Asian
ELA 2018-19	16.5%	N/A	n<10	N/A
Math 2018-19	.5%	N/A	n<10	n<10
Males ELA	13.4%	N/A	n<10	N/A
Males Math	.9%	N/A	n<10	n<10

 

Mari’s 2 cents: I’m playing around with the format of this so bear with me.  The boundaries of Dunbar cover a huge swath of Ward 5, but cuts out portions of the Truxton Circle/ Shaw neighborhood where it resides. I can understand why so many students would prefer to go to McKinley Technology High School, an application DCPS high school, as it is far closer to the red line that serves the ward. That and McKinely has better test scores. The next largest number of kids go to Wilson, which is on the other side of the red line, and it too has better scores. But, Dunbar has a great football team and a beautiful building. The school is 96% black and so there are so few of the other racial categories, there is no test data when there are fewer than 10 or 25 students.

Sources:
https://edscape.dc.gov/page/facilities-unfilled-seats
https://www.dcschoolreportcard.org/schools/1-0467
http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Dunbar+High+School
https://www.myschooldc.org
https://dcps.dc.gov/node/1018342
https://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables#