Marie Reed ES

Located at 2201 18th St. NW, in Washington, District of Columbia, Marie Reed ES is a moderately sized elementary school that serves 461 students (grades pre-K through 5), run under District of Columbia Public Schools. That puts it 32% bigger than the typical public school in District of Columbia, which averages around 348 students.

District of Columbia Public Schools comprises 117 schools with combined enrollment of 52,030 students; Marie Reed ES is among them.

On demographics, Marie Reed ES reports that the most-represented group is Hispanic (44%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups; the rest consists of 21% Black, 21% White, 8% Asian, 6% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 12% Hispanic, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, The school lists 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.2:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical.

Zooming out to the county, District of Columbia reports that the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, District of Columbia runs 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), of which Marie Reed ES is one.

The closest other public school is H.D. Cooke ES, roughly 0.4 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Marie Reed ES.

Marie Reed ES operates from a metropolitan location.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked up 8%: 427 students in 2018 compared to 461 in 2025. The Hispanic share of enrollment contracted from 59% to 44% over that span.

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