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Washington, District of Columbia - 15 schools
An equity score of 29/100 ranks Friendship Pcs #34 of 51 districts in District of Columbia (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $21,334 per pupil, Friendship Pcs ranks #55 of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending (District of Columbia districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
4,609
Total Enrollment
15
Schools
$21,334
Per-Pupil Spending
Elementary, Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Friendship Pcs operates 15 public schools serving 4,609 students, placing it among the smaller districts in District of Columbia. The school portfolio breaks down into 7 elementary, 6 combined, 2 high schools, a compact enough portfolio that families can compare every campus directly before they move, rent, or enrol. These enrollment and school figures come from the NCES Common Core of Data (CCD) 2024-25 release, and the district is based in District of Columbia.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $21,334 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the bottom 6 of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending. See how District of Columbia compares in our national per-pupil spending analysis. The funding mix is 87.7% local, and 12.3% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers. The district's equity score is 29/100, ranked #34 of 51 in District of Columbia against a state average of 38, notably less even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
Academic infrastructure includes 2 of 15 schools offering Advanced Placement (20 AP courses district-wide), a 428.8:1 student-counselor ratio, above both the ASCA benchmark and the roughly 408:1 national average, and 48.4% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 95.7% African American, 3.2% Hispanic or Latino, 0.3% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Friendship Pcs - Online Academy, with a diversity index of 25.7/100.
Friendship Pcs - Collegiate Academy accounts for 16.2% of all Friendship Pcs student enrollment
That concentration means Friendship Pcs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: high. A single dominant campus often anchors a district's program offerings and staffing patterns; the share helps explain why district-wide averages may not reflect the typical neighbourhood-school experience. When one entity dominates a region's footprint, its programmatic and budget decisions effectively set policy for a majority of the affected population.
Friendship Pcs school enrollment varies 4.3× across entities
Friendship Pcs school enrollment ranges from 172 students (lowest) to 745 students (highest), a spread of 573 students. That relatively narrow ratio reflects an unusually homogeneous campus portfolio, most districts have a wider mix of school sizes. Per-school staffing ratios, programme availability, and capital-renovation cycles often diverge inside the same district based on enrollment shape.
Friendship Pcs student-counselor ratio is 429:1 — high (typically associated with staffing constraints that limit per-student counselor time; CRDC data shows higher ratios cluster in larger urban systems)
student-counselor ratio is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: the ratio counts FTE counselors against total enrollment, districts that contract intervention or social-emotional staff outside the counselor classification may be under-counted Higher values may reflect larger urban scale or recent resource constraints that have widened the gap.
Friendship Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 48.4% — well above typical (typically associated with unusually large scale or acute resource constraints)
chronic absenteeism rate is the simplest comparative metric but it does not capture the full picture: a student is chronically absent if they miss ≥10% of enrolled days for any reason, illness, family obligations, or disengagement Values this far above typical often signal acute resource constraints or a structurally different scale than most peers — worth reading alongside the underlying counts, not the ratio alone.