DC WARD EDUCATION RECOVERY DASHBOARD
Explore the latest data by ward of school to better understand what supports students need to thrive in the coming school years. Expand the headers below for more detail about each recovery metric.
LAST UPDATE: DECEMBER 2024
This ward level version of our DC Education Recovery Dashboard contains a few key metric differences based on OSSE’s publicly available datasets (see full details below). Another important note is that data shown for all metrics except enrollment reflects an unweighted average of school data. Our preference is to use weighted averages so that small schools do not overly influence ward averages. However, for several key data points, OSSE does not provide or has suppressed n-size information. Therefore, we utilize straight averages for all metrics.
Select a ward of interest using the dropdown in the first dark blue box in the dashboard below.
How are DC’s students doing?
Student Achievement on CAPE/PARCC
Students in grades 3-8 and once in high school participate in the state assessment, currently the CAPE test, in math and reading. These graphs show the percent of students meeting or exceeding expectations (level 4+). The data for 23-24 can be found on OSSE’s results page.
Student Growth on LEA Benchmark Assessments
This metric shows the average fall-to-spring math and reading growth percentile for students who took the MAP and iReady computer-adaptive benchmark assessment in grades K-8. Many, but not all, students participate in one of the assessments. In some wards, too few schools participated in these assessments, so we suppressed ward level calculations. More information in our Research section.
Chronic Absenteeism
This metric shows the percent of students who attend less than 90% of school, missing more than one day of school every two weeks on average. Research proves the value of instructional hours received and the negative impact of not attending school regularly. Data from the DC School Report Card and historical OSSE 2020-21 Attendance Report.
4-Year High School Graduation Rate
This metric shows the 4-year adjusted cohort graduation rate for DC high schools. Data source is OSSE Data and Reports.
How is education system doing in the ward?
Public School Enrollment
This metric shows the total public school enrollment in DCPS and DC Public Charter Schools, including pre-kindergarten through 12th grade and excluding adult education. Data source is the School Report Card and Enrollment Audit files.
Suspension Count
This metric shows the number of in-school and out-of-school suspensions issued by schools. Given the unique, remote nature of the last quarter of 2019-20 and the entire 2020-21 school year, OSSE did not collect and publish suspension data.
A previous version of this dashboard included percent of new school leaders. However, the DC Report Card does not include raw data files for educator experience as in previous years.
Teacher Retention
This metric shows the percent of teachers who remained in their same role at the same school from the prior year. OSSE publishes data citywide in the Educator Workforce Report and by school from its website.
Inflation-Adjusted Student Spending
This metric shows the base per student spending rate in 2013 dollars, including all local and federal funding sources. The values are adjusted for inflation and shown in 2013-14 dollars to align with findings from the DC Education Adequacy study released in December 2013, using calculators provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Federal dollars include funding such as Title I and SOAR as well as other one-time sources such as ESSER (Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief) funds appropriated by Congress. Schools also sometimes receive private money from philanthropic sources and parent-teacher organizations. In 2019, OSSE started to publish comprehensive per student expenditure data for all DC public schools. These figures do not include private money.
OSSE plans to publish 2023-24 school spending data later this spring. When available, we plan to update this dashboard.