Ranking Charter Schools

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Monday, November 19, 2007

The pro-charter organization Friends of Choice in Urban Schools has produced a list of D.C. charter schools ranked by their combined reading and math proficiency rates on the D.C. Comprehensive Assessment System tests in 2007. Here are the top 20.

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The combined reading and math proficiency rate for all D.C. public schools, regular and charter, is about 34 percent. Schools that achieve high proficiency rates despite having large portions of low-income students are rare in the United States. Also included, in parentheses, is the percentage of students at the schools who come from low-income families and qualify for meal subsidies.

Rank School (% Low-Income) Proficient

1. Washington Latin (10) 75

2. KIPP DC: KEY Academy (81) 74

3. City Collegiate (31) 73

4. St. Coletta (40) 69

5. Capital City (55) 66

6. Wash. Math Science Tech (100) 59

Tie: Howard Road (63) 59

8. Paul (55) 58

9. William E. Doar Jr. (64) 56

Tie: Howard University (51) 56

11. Friendship (Woodridge) (56) 54