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School name Type Grades Neighborhood Ward DCPS school code Address Website Anacostia High School: Public, traditional: 9-12: Anacostia: 8 450 1601 16th St SE, Washington, DC 20020
DCPS is the sole public school district in the District of Columbia. [2] As of 2013, DCPS consisted of 111 [3] [4] of the 238 public elementary and secondary schools and learning centers in Washington, D.C. These schools span prekindergarten to twelfth grade. As of 2000, kindergarten students entered at 5 years old. [5]
To relieve crowding at Roosevelt High School, Superintendent Frank W. Ballou proposed building a new high school for students living in Manor Park and Takoma Park. [11] Dr. Ballou suggested that the new high school should be built at Fifth and Sheridan streets NW, [11] on property that the District of Columbia had purchased five years earlier [12] and across the street from Whittier School ...
Consequently, new school boundaries were established to address this issue. Subsequently, during the autumn of 1954, the first African-American students who were previously attending Cardozo (Central) and Spingarn High schools were transferred to Eastern, resulting in an African-American student population of 1.4%.
Student groups and activities include art club, choir, community service club, debate club, drama club, Friendship News Network, the Leadership Criminal Justice Program, National Honor Society, robotics team, science club, student government association, world language club, and yearbook.
Construction of the building started in 1959 and concluded in 1961; it was originally known as Federal Office Building 6 (FOB 6). [2] The building was initially used by NASA and the then Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW). [2]
The main block of the school was opened in 1912 as the O Street Vocational School. It was designed by District of Columbia Municipal Architect Snowden Ashford . [ 2 ] The school was renamed for Margaret Murray Washington , the wife of Booker T. Washington , in 1926.
C Street looking northeast. The Henry J. Daly Building (previously known as the Municipal Center and also referred to as 300 Indiana and the Daly Building) is located at 300 Indiana Avenue, NW, and 301 C Street, NW, in the Judiciary Square neighborhood of Washington, D.C., United States.