DC Prep PCS - Benning MS

DC Prep PCS - Benning MS, a mid-sized middle school in Washington, District of Columbia, run under DC Prep PCS, serves 318 students, covering grades 4 through 8.

DC Prep PCS comprises 6 schools with combined enrollment of 2,181 students; DC Prep PCS - Benning MS is among them.

On the student-mix side, DC Prep PCS - Benning MS records that 92% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 6% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, DC Prep PCS - Benning MS has 31 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 10.3:1. The state averages about 10.8:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

Around the school, community-level numbers for District of Columbia indicate median household income runs about $109,870, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. In all, District of Columbia runs 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), of which DC Prep PCS - Benning MS is one.

The closest other public school is DC Prep PCS - Benning ES, roughly 0.0 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an urban site. DC Prep PCS - Benning MS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 5%: 335 students in 2018 compared to 318 in 2025.

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