Center City PCS - Petworth

Center City PCS - Petworth is a primary school of low-enrollment scale in Washington, District of Columbia, part of Center City PCS, educateing 255 students in grades pre-K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 27% smaller than the state mean of about 348.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, Center City PCS - Petworth logs that Black students make up the majority at 59%. Other groups include 38% Hispanic. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Center City PCS - Petworth shows 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 9.8:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Center City PCS - Petworth tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the broader community, census data for District of Columbia shows the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, 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 - Petworth is one campus in the mix.

E.L. Haynes PCS - ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

Center City PCS - Petworth operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, Center City PCS - Petworth runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Center City PCS - Petworth has stayed largely flat, going from 252 students in 2018 to 255 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 47% to 59% across the same window. Class-load math has fell: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 9.8:1 in 2025.

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