Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep

Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep is an elementary school of big scale in Washington, District of Columbia, one of the schools within Rocketship Education DC PCS, serveing 530 students in grades pre-K through 5. That puts it 52% above the typical public school in District of Columbia, which averages around 348 students.

Within Rocketship Education DC PCS, which oversees 3 schools and 1,197 students, Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep is one campus in the system.

On demographics, Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep logs that 97% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Other groups include 2% Hispanic. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

Looking at the economic backdrop, Staff filings list 32 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.6:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, District of Columbia reports that median household earnings sit near $109,870, 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 Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep is one.

The closest other public school is Malcolm X ES at Green, roughly 0.6 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. Rocketship PCS - Legacy Prep is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

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