KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS

Located at 2600 DOUGLASS ROAD SE, in Washington, District of Columbia, KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS is an intimate elementary-level community that enrolls 282 students (grades pre-K through K), overseen by KIPP DC PCS.

Within KIPP DC PCS, which oversees 20 schools and 7,372 students, KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS records that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix noticeably more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS records 21 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 13.2:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the area at large, District of Columbia reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, about 64% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Across District of Columbia's 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS is one campus in the mix.

KIPP DC - AIM Academy PCS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius.

The school occupies a city-core site. KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. KIPP DC - Discover Academy PCS's enrollment has contracted 20% since 2018, when it stood at 351 (now 282). Class-load math has narrowed: from 18.5:1 in 2018 to 13.2:1 in 2025.

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