Maya Angelou PCS - HS

Set in Washington, District of Columbia, Maya Angelou PCS - HS is a rural-scale secondary school, run under Maya Angelou PCS. It teaches 218 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 61% below the state mean of about 553.

Maya Angelou PCS is the operating authority for Maya Angelou PCS - HS, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, Maya Angelou PCS - HS logs that 99% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

In terms of school funding signals, On paper, Maya Angelou PCS - HS has 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.2:1 average.

In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (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 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 Maya Angelou PCS - HS is one.

Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - East End is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Maya Angelou PCS - HS.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. Maya Angelou PCS - HS operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Trend over the last 7 years. Maya Angelou PCS - HS's enrollment has grew 28% since 2018, when it stood at 170 (now 218).

On the community side, the page collects discussion, questions, and updates around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.