Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster)

Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) operates as a middle-of-the-pack middle school in Washington, District of Columbia, run under District of Columbia Public Schools. Current enrollment sits at 460 students spanning grades 6 through 8. By comparison, District of Columbia's public schools average about 345 students each, so Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) sits 33% bigger than that benchmark.

Within District of Columbia Public Schools, which oversees 117 schools and 52,030 students, Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) is one campus in the system.

On the student-mix side, Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school reports 19% White, 5% Hispanic, 4% multiracial. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 42%.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) has 34 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 13.5:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 10.8:1 average.

Zooming out to the county, District of Columbia reports that median household income runs about $109,870, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and roughly 12% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster) is one of 247 public schools in District of Columbia (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students).

Nearest neighbor: Capitol Hill Montessori School at Logan, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Stuart-Hobson MS (Capitol Hill Cluster).

The campus sits in an urban setting.

Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count rose 9%: 422 students in 2018 compared to 460 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 82% to 70% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 15.1:1 in 2018 to 13.5:1 today.

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