This dashboard shows where public schools students living in each of the DCPS school boundaries enrolled. Below the map is the number of grade-appropriate students who live in each boundary (based on their residence per the October audited enrollment), the boundary participation rate or the percent of students living in the boundary who attend the DCPS boundary school of right, the total number of DCPS and public charter schools that are attended by students living in the boundary, and the number of DCPS and public charter schools that have 10 or more students enrolled from there. The map displays the specific boundary selected and schools that receive 10 or more students from the boundary. The starred school indicates the school of right (see below for more information).
Source: OSSE Audited Enrollment, SY19-20 to SY23-24
What are “schools of right”?
DCPS acts as the "school of right" for all compulsory school-age children in grades K-12.* DCPS identifies students' schools of right via attendance boundaries (based on the student's residence) or school feeder rights (based on the DCPS school the student last attended, which also includes programmatic feeder rights). Public school students in Washington, DC can choose to attend their DCPS boundary school of right or may choose to enter the citywide lottery to attend a public charter school, an out of boundary DCPS school, a citywide DCPS school, an application DCPS high school, or an alternative DCPS high school. Because of this system of choice, students living in a specific DCPS attendance zone may enroll in many different schools across the city.
The information in this dashboard focuses just on geographic school rights and not feeder rights (or the right to attend the next grade level school based on the completion of the terminal grade of their current school). Because some students have multiple geographic rights, the total number of grade-appropriate students that live in the boundaries will be greater than the total PK-12th grade enrollment.
*PK3 and PK4 students are not required to attend school until age 5; therefore, PK3 and PK4 students are offered an in-boundary preference to their neighborhood DCPS school in the common lottery. Students do not have a right to their neighborhood school until they reach compulsory age. For more information about this process see the My School DC lottery.
