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Washington, District of Columbia - 2 schools
An equity score of 52/100 ranks Maya Angelou Pcs #13 of 51 districts in District of Columbia (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $75,538 per pupil, Maya Angelou Pcs ranks #2 of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending (District of Columbia districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
539
Total Enrollment
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$75,538
Per-Pupil Spending
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School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Maya Angelou Pcs operates 2 public schools serving 539 students, placing it among the smallest districts in District of Columbia. The school portfolio breaks down into 2 high 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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $75,538 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, among the top 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 91.9% local, and 8.1% 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 52/100, ranked #13 of 51 in District of Columbia against a state average of 38, notably more even than the typical district in the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 72.7:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 81.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 98.6% African American, 0.9% Hispanic or Latino, 0.5% White across the district's schools.
Its largest campus is Maya Angelou Pcs - Hs, enrolling 218 students (84% of the district's total enrollment). Its smallest is Maya Angelou Pcs - Academy at Dc Jail, at 40 students, a 5x enrollment spread across the district's campuses.
Maya Angelou Pcs - Hs accounts for 40.4% of all Maya Angelou Pcs student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Maya Angelou 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.
Maya Angelou Pcs student-counselor ratio is 73:1 — well below typical (typically associated with unusually small scale or exceptionally high per-unit investment)
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 Values this far below typical often correlate with unusually small scale or population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se — worth checking whether the underlying denominator is itself an outlier.
Maya Angelou Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 81.8% — 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.