Center City PCS - Brightwood

As an intimate elementary campus in Washington, District of Columbia, Center City PCS - Brightwood hosts 269 students from grades pre-K through 8, run under Center City PCS. Enrollment runs roughly 23% below the state mean of about 348.

Center City PCS runs 6 schools in total, collectively educating 1,446 students. Center City PCS - Brightwood is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Center City PCS - Brightwood shows that the largest single group is Black, at 58% of enrollment. Other groups include 38% Hispanic, 3% multiracial. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Center City PCS - Brightwood tighter than the state norm the norm.

Zooming out to the county, ACS estimates for District of Columbia put the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across District of Columbia's 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), Center City PCS - Brightwood is one campus in the mix.

Brightwood ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. Center City PCS - Brightwood operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Center City PCS - Brightwood's enrollment has changed only slightly since 2018, when it stood at 263 (now 269). Over the same period, the Hispanic share decreased from 44% to 38%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 13.3:1 in 2018 to 9.4:1 in 2025.

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