Friendship PCS - Online Academy

Set in Washington, District of Columbia, Friendship PCS - Online Academy is an average-sized K-5 school, operated by Friendship PCS. It instructs 366 students across grades K through 8.

Friendship PCS - Online Academy is one of 15 schools operated by Friendship PCS, a district that caters to 4,378 students overall.

On demographics, Friendship PCS - Online Academy lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (86%). The remainder comes out to 7% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Friendship PCS - Online Academy has 15 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 24.4:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, census data for District of Columbia shows median household earnings sit near $109,870, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Friendship PCS - Online Academy is one of 247 public schools in District of Columbia (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students).

Nearest neighbor: Brightwood ES, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Friendship PCS - Online Academy.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, Friendship PCS - Online Academy runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school. Instruction is delivered virtually rather than at a physical campus, and enrollment crosses district lines.

Five-year trend. Friendship PCS - Online Academy's enrollment has climbed 103% since 2018, when it stood at 180 (now 366). Over the same period, the White share declined from 8% to 2%. Class-load math has narrowed: from 25.7:1 in 2018 to 24.4:1 in 2025.

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