Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary

As a compact elementary campus in Washington, District of Columbia, Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary educates 256 students from grades pre-K through 3, operated by Friendship PCS. Enrollment runs roughly 26% below the state mean of about 348.

Friendship PCS runs 15 schools in total, collectively educating 4,378 students. Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary is one of those campuses.

On the student-mix side, Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary logs that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 4% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, The school lists 26 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 9.7:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Around the school, ACS estimates for District of Columbia put the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, District of Columbia runs 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), of which Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary is one.

The closest other public school is Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Middle, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary.

Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary operates from a metropolitan location. Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count shrank 32%: 377 students in 2018 compared to 256 in 2025. Class-load math has pulled in: from 18.9:1 in 2018 to 9.7:1 in 2025.

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