Walker-Jones Education Campus

Set in Washington, District of Columbia, Walker-Jones Education Campus is a low-enrollment elementary campus, overseen by District of Columbia Public Schools. It caters to 292 students across grades pre-K through 8.

District of Columbia Public Schools runs 117 schools in total, collectively educating 52,030 students. Walker-Jones Education Campus is one of those campuses.

On demographics, Walker-Jones Education Campus records that 94% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority; the rest reads as 3% Hispanic. By comparison, District of Columbia as a whole is about 42% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Walker-Jones Education Campus logs 36 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 8.1:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 11.0:1, putting Walker-Jones Education Campus tighter than the state norm the norm.

In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for District of Columbia indicate median household income runs about $109,870, roughly 64% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 12%. Walker-Jones Education Campus is one of 247 public schools in District of Columbia (combined enrollment of about 94,385 students).

Nearest neighbor: Dunbar HS, around 0.2 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around Walker-Jones Education Campus.

The school occupies a metropolitan site.

Looking at the recent track record. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 33%: 435 students in 2018 compared to 292 in 2025. Class-load math has narrowed: from 11.8:1 in 2018 to 8.1:1 in 2025.

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