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 SY2024-25, 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 are 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 more than one third of students living there are identified as English learner students: Takoma and Brightwood (Cluster 17) and Columbia Heights and Mt Pleasant (Cluster 2).
Where English Learner Students Live by Varying Geographies, SY13-14 to SY24-25
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