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Washington, District of Columbia - 1 schools
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District-Level NCES Analysis
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs operates 1 public schools serving 250 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 92.9% local, and 7.1% federal, a local-revenue-heavy mix that leaves the district more exposed to property-tax swings and local ballot measures than state-funded peers.
a 62.5:1 student-counselor ratio, that meets the ASCA-recommended benchmark, and 89.2% chronic absenteeism from the 2021-22 Civil Rights Data Collection. Demographically, the student body averages 82.0% African American, 9.6% Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% White across the district's schools.
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs accounts for 100.0% of all St. Coletta Special Education Pcs student enrollment
That is an overwhelming concentration, leaving the rest of St. Coletta Special Education Pcs a distant remainder — means St. Coletta Special Education 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.
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs student-counselor ratio is 63:1 — 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.
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs chronic absenteeism rate is 89.2% — 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.
Comparisons are relative to St. Coletta Special Education Pcs's own figures; each column derives from NCES Common Core of Data and the F-33 Finance Survey.
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How many schools are in St. Coletta Special Education Pcs?
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs has 1 school, including 1 combined. Total enrollment is 250 students.
What is the demographic composition of St. Coletta Special Education Pcs?
St. Coletta Special Education Pcs students are 82.0% African American, 9.6% Hispanic or Latino, 3.2% White, 0.8% Asian, averaged across 1 school. Source: NCES CCD Membership 2024-25.