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Washington, District of Columbia - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
Hope Community Pcs operates 1 public schools serving 203 students, placing it among the smallest districts in District of Columbia. The school portfolio breaks down into 1 combined schools, a small enough portfolio that most families will interact with nearly every campus in the district at some point. 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.
The funding mix is 78.1% local, and 21.9% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
and 83.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 58.2% African American, 37.9% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Hope Community Pcs - Tolson, enrolling 232 students (100% of the district's total enrollment).
Hope Community Pcs - Tolson accounts for 100.0% of all Hope Community Pcs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of Hope Community Pcs a distant remainder — means Hope Community Pcs-wide averages can mask substantial variation outside the dominant entity. Grade band: combined. 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.
Hope Community Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 83.2% — 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.
Hope Community Pcs has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 203 students.
What is the demographic composition of Hope Community Pcs?
Hope Community Pcs students are 58.2% African American, 37.9% Hispanic or Latino, 3.9% White, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.