Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary

Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary operates as a small elementary school in Washington, District of Columbia, run under Friendship PCS. Current enrollment sits at 212 students spanning grades pre-K through 3. Compared to the state average of about 348 students per school, that is 39% smaller than typical.

Within Friendship PCS, which oversees 15 schools and 4,378 students, Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary is one campus in the system.

Demographically, Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary logs that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (92%). Beyond that, the school reports 7% Hispanic. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 17 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for District of Columbia indicate median household earnings sit near $109,870, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, 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 Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary is one.

Friendship PCS - Ideal Middle is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, Friendship PCS - Ideal Elementary runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.