Stanton ES

Stanton ES is a compact elementary school in Washington, District of Columbia, operated by District of Columbia Public Schools. The school enrolls 288 students in grades pre-K through 5.

District of Columbia Public Schools comprises 117 schools with combined enrollment of 52,030 students; Stanton ES is among them.

On the student-mix side, Stanton ES shows that 95% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest looks like 5% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 42% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.

Looking at school resources, On paper, Stanton ES has 30 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.6:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 11.0:1 average.

In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for District of Columbia put the typical household earns roughly $109,870 per year, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 12%. Across District of Columbia's 247 public schools (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students), Stanton ES is one campus in the mix.

Rocketship PCS - Rise Academy is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.4 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stanton ES.

Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count ticked down 42%: 493 students in 2018 compared to 288 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 14.5:1 in 2018 to 9.6:1 today.

On this page, posts here usually surface around open house dates, ride-share offers, and field-trip permission slips. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.