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District of Columbia schools ranked by test score

Latest DC CAPE year (2024-25). 127 schools with reported Mathematics scores. State average: 27.5%.
RankSchoolLevelMathematicsvs state
1Lafayette ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary84.3%+56.8pp
2Janney ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary83.0%+55.5pp
3Brent ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary82.7%+55.2pp
4Ross ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary79.7%+52.2pp
5Stoddert ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary79.7%+52.2pp
6School-Within-School at Goding
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary75.7%+48.2pp
7Hearst ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary75.5%+48.0pp
8Key ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary74.6%+47.1pp
9Murch ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary70.3%+42.8pp
10Maury ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary69.3%+41.8pp
11Mann ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary68.5%+41.0pp
12Eaton ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary65.4%+37.9pp
13Oyster-Adams Bilingual School
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary64.9%+37.4pp
14Hyde-Addison ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary63.9%+36.4pp
15Shepherd ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary62.7%+35.2pp
16Whittier ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary54.7%+27.2pp
17Ludlow-Taylor ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary52.6%+25.1pp
18Washington Yu Ying PCS
Washington · Washington Yu Ying PCS
Elementary51.5%+24.0pp
19Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - Calle Ocho
Washington · Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Elementary51.1%+23.6pp
20Latin American Montessori Bilingual PCS
Washington · Latin American Montessori Bilingual PCS
Elementary47.1%+19.6pp
21Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Washington · Inspired Teaching Demonstration PCS
Elementary46.1%+18.6pp
22Bruce-Monroe ES at Park View
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary45.8%+18.3pp
23Payne ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary45.5%+18.0pp
24Friendship PCS - Chamberlain Elementary
Washington · Friendship PCS
Elementary44.9%+17.4pp
25Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS - Brookland
Washington · Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom PCS
Elementary44.6%+17.1pp
26Garrison ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary44.6%+17.1pp
27Burroughs ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary44.1%+16.6pp
28Barnard ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary43.6%+16.1pp
29Watkins ES (Capitol Hill Cluster)
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary42.4%+14.9pp
30Marie Reed ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary41.6%+14.1pp
31Shirley Chisholm ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary41.4%+13.9pp
32John Lewis ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary40.0%+12.5pp
33Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS - J.F. Cook
Washington · Mundo Verde Bilingual PCS
Elementary38.8%+11.3pp
34Sela PCS
Washington · Sela PCS
Elementary38.0%+10.5pp
35Center City PCS - Congress Heights
Washington · Center City PCS
Elementary37.9%+10.4pp
36DC Bilingual PCS
Washington · DC Bilingual PCS
Elementary37.1%+9.6pp
37John Francis Education Campus
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary35.7%+8.2pp
38LEARN DC PCS
Washington · LEARN DC PCS
Elementary35.7%+8.2pp
39Center City PCS - Brightwood
Washington · Center City PCS
Elementary35.4%+7.9pp
40Bancroft ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary35.2%+7.7pp
41Powell ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary34.3%+6.8pp
42Lee Montessori PCS - Brookland
Washington · Lee Montessori PCS
Elementary31.8%+4.3pp
43DC Prep PCS - Benning ES
Washington · DC Prep PCS
Elementary31.2%+3.7pp
44Seaton ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary31.1%+3.6pp
45LaSalle-Backus ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary30.5%+3.0pp
46Dorothy I. Height ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary29.6%+2.1pp
47KIPP DC - Promise Academy PCS
Washington · KIPP DC PCS
Elementary29.6%+2.1pp
48Takoma ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary29.4%+1.9pp
49Langdon ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary28.9%+1.4pp
50Tubman ES
Washington · District of Columbia Public Schools
Elementary28.2%+0.7pp
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About this ranking

Schools are ranked by the percentage of students who scored at or above the DC CAPE % Meeting + Exceeding threshold on the latest available DC CAPE Mathematics test (school year 2024-25). A higher percentage is better.

Only public schools with a reasonable cohort size are included (at least 50 total students enrolled, since the source file does not include per-subject student counts), so very small programs and special-purpose centers are filtered out.

The state average shown above is enrollment-weighted: we multiply each school's score by how many of its students tested, sum those across every public school in District of Columbia, and divide by the total students tested. This way a big school counts more than a tiny one in the typical-student average.