Hart MS

Hart MS, a mid-tier intermediate school in Washington, District of Columbia, part of District of Columbia Public Schools, teaches 374 students, covering grades 6 through 8.

District of Columbia Public Schools runs 117 schools in total, collectively educating 52,030 students. Hart MS is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Hart MS shows that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 3% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 10.4:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely.

Across the wider county, the surrounding county (District of Columbia) shows that the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, 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 Hart MS is one.

Simon ES is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Hart MS.

The campus sits in a downtown setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 11%: 337 students in 2018 compared to 374 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio pulled in from 12.0:1 in 2018 to 10.4:1 today.

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