Monument Academy PCS

Located at 500 19TH STREET NE, in Washington, District of Columbia, Monument Academy PCS is a very small middle-grades school that works with 131 students (grades 5 through 8), overseen by Monument Academy PCS. That puts it 62% smaller than the typical public school in District of Columbia, which averages around 345 students.

Monument Academy PCS is a school of Monument Academy PCS, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, Monument Academy PCS lists that 96% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder consists of 2% 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 18 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 7.3:1 students per teacher. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 10.8:1 average.

In the broader community, community-level numbers for District of Columbia indicate 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%. In all, District of Columbia runs 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), of which Monument Academy PCS is one.

The closest other public school is Friendship PCS - Blow Pierce Middle, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Monument Academy PCS.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. Monument Academy PCS is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Monument Academy PCS's enrollment has increased 13% since 2018, when it stood at 116 (now 131).

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on science fair prep, picture-day reminders, and bus-route questions. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.