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Washington, District of Columbia - 3 schools
An equity score of 38/100 ranks Rocketship Education Dc Pcs #28 of 51 districts in District of Columbia (state average 38). Derived live from how evenly resources are distributed across the district's schools.
At $29,167 per pupil, Rocketship Education Dc Pcs ranks #31 of 58 District of Columbia districts by per-pupil spending (District of Columbia districts). NCES F-33 finance data.
1,493
Total Enrollment
3
Schools
$29,167
Per-Pupil Spending
Combined
School Types
District-Level NCES Analysis
Rocketship Education Dc Pcs operates 3 public schools serving 1,493 students, placing it among the smallest districts in District of Columbia. The school portfolio breaks down into 3 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.
Per-pupil expenditure runs $29,167 according to the NCES F-33 School District Finance Survey, in the lower half 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 84.4% local, and 15.6% 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 38/100, ranked #28 of 51 in District of Columbia against a state average of 38, in line with the typical spread seen across the state for how evenly funding reaches its schools.
a 199.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 56.8% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 88.0% African American, 9.8% Hispanic or Latino, 0.7% White across the district's schools. Its most demographically mixed campus is Rocketship Pcs - Infinity Community Prep, with a diversity index of 44.8/100.
Its largest campus is Rocketship Pcs - Legacy Prep, enrolling 530 students (44% of the district's total enrollment).
Rocketship Pcs - Legacy Prep accounts for 35.5% of all Rocketship Education Dc Pcs student enrollment
That dominant concentration means Rocketship Education Dc 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.
Rocketship Education Dc Pcs student-counselor ratio is 200:1 — low (typically associated with meeting or exceeding the American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommended 250:1 benchmark, which correlates with stronger college and career counseling capacity)
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 Lower values often correlate with smaller scale and population characteristics rather than higher resource budgets per se.
Rocketship Education Dc Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 56.8% — 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.