Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence

Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence, an intimate elementary campus in Washington, District of Columbia, overseen by Harmony DC PCS, hosts 182 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 48% below the typical public school in District of Columbia, which averages around 348 students.

Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence is a school of Harmony DC PCS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence shows that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (95%); the rest looks like 2% Hispanic. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 19 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 9.4:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, District of Columbia reports that median household income runs about $109,870, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. In all, District of Columbia runs 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), of which Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence is one.

Langley 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.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. Harmony DC PCS - School of Excellence's enrollment has expanded 94% since 2018, when it stood at 94 (now 182).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.