Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS

Set in Washington, District of Columbia, Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS is a tight-knit secondary school, overseen by District of Columbia Public Schools. It instructs 350 students across grades 9 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 37% smaller than the state mean of about 553.

District of Columbia Public Schools comprises 117 schools with combined enrollment of 52,030 students; Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS is among them.

Demographically, Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS lists that the student body is overwhelmingly Black (89%); the rest comes out to 9% Hispanic. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, The school reports having 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 10.6:1. The state averages about 11.2:1, putting this campus right in line with peers.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for District of Columbia indicate the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across District of Columbia's 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is Two Rivers PCS - Young ES, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

The school occupies an urban site.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at Phelps Architecture Construction and Engineering HS has increased 35%, going from 260 students in 2018 to 350 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 95% to 89% across the same window.

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