Users can select different geographies (wards, DCPS high school boundaries, Comprehensive Plan planning areas, or neighborhood clusters) to view where students identified as English learners live. In SY2025-26, Wards 4, 1, and 5 have the greatest number of students identified as English learners. As a share of public school students living within the ward, Wards 1, 4, and 2 have between a quarter and a third of all public school students identified as English learners.
By neighborhood cluster, English learner students are concentrated in the following neighborhood clusters: Columbia Heights and Mt Pleasant (Cluster 2); Brightwood Park, Crestwood, and Petworth (Cluster 18); Takoma and Brightwood (Cluster 17); and Lamont Riggs and Fort Totten (Cluster 19). The following three neighborhood clusters have 30% or more of students living there are identified as English learner students: Columbia Heights and Mt Pleasant (Cluster 2); Takoma and Brightwood (Cluster 17); and Lamont Riggs and Fort Totten (Cluster 19).
Where English Learner Students Live by Varying Geographies, SY13-14 to SY25-26
Source: OSSE Audited Enrollment, SY13-14 to SY25-26
