Hope Community PCS - Tolson

Hope Community PCS - Tolson is an elementary school in Washington, District of Columbia, reachable at (202) 832-7370. The school counts 232 students across pre-K through 8. The typical figure for elementary schools in District of Columbia is about 348 students.

Hope Community PCS is responsible for Hope Community PCS - Tolson.

Hope Community PCS - Tolson is 58% Black by enrollment. Other students are 38% Hispanic and 4% White. By comparison, District of Columbia residents are about 42% Black. Pick two students at random and there is a 52% chance they belong to different racial or ethnic groups; that figure is the school's diversity index.

At Hope Community PCS - Tolson, 22 full-time-equivalent teachers work with students, a ratio of about 10.6:1. That is close to the 11.0:1 average for elementary schools in District of Columbia.

Hope Community PCS - Tolson is located in District of Columbia, where the median household income is $109,870, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 64%, and roughly 12% of residents are in poverty. Besides Hope Community PCS - Tolson, District of Columbia has 246 other public schools.

The closest public school to Hope Community PCS - Tolson is Washington Latin PCS - Anna Julia Cooper Middle School, about 0.1 miles away. Counting only straight-line distance, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles.

NCES assigns Hope Community PCS - Tolson the locale City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Hope Community PCS - Tolson is a charter school, a type of public school that operates under a charter.

Federal data show a 36% enrollment decrease, from 365 in 2020-21 to 232 in 2024-25. Over the same period, the student-to-teacher ratio fell to 10.6:1, from 15.9:1.

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