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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]
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
The District of Columbia State Board of Education (SBOE) is an independent executive branch agency of the Government of the District of Columbia, in the United States.The SBOE provides advocacy and policy guidance for the District of Columbia Public Schools, and works with the Chancellor of the District of Columbia Public Schools and the District of Columbia State Superintendent of Education.
Before her appointment, she was a school administrator in Spring Branch Independent School District and Virginia Beach City Public Schools, the Director of the Governor’s Best Practice Center with the Virginia Department of Education, and the Associate Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction for Manassas Park City Schools.
When the students moved to the new facility, the enrollment exceeded 1,000. As the surrounding neighborhood of Eastern High School continued to grow, the school's capacity reached 3,000 students by 1934. To address the overcrowding issue, students who lived east of the Anacostia River were redirected to Anacostia High School. [13] [14]
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 ...
The school has regular graffiti cleaning, [5] students have received free dental care, [6] and D.C. Discovery Days give them field trips out of the neighborhood. [7] ...
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. She had been a leader of several black feminist organizations and the anti-lynching ...