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About DC Scholars PCS

  • DC Scholars develops life-long scholars who have the academic knowledge and skills, individual passions, and community-mindedness necessary to succeed in and contribute to an ever changing world. Opened in 2012 as a PK-3 public charter school in DC’s Ward 7, DC Scholars now serves grades PK3-8 while sustaining strong academic achievement. Our school delivers rigorous instruction, serves as a community of joy where students thrive, and embeds the expectation that scholars can – and will – achieve academic success.

  • DC Scholars achieves its mission through a focus on 3 core pillars: 

1) Academic Knowledge and Skills: DC Scholars offers rigorous academic programming supplemented with research-based small group interventions and High Impact Tutoring (HIT). 

2) Individual Passions: True scholars are well-rounded. At DC Scholars, students have the opportunity to explore their individual passions through specials subjects (Art, Dance, P.E./Health, Spanish); extracurricular programming (MusicKids, athletics, chess, biking, gardening, etc.); and field trips. 

3) Community Mindedness: As a PS-8 community school, DC Scholars develops young children in a caring, close-knit community. We offer daily socio-emotional skills lessons to build students emotional intelligence and collaboration skills.

 

Community School

 
Offering students and families supports that extend beyond the classroom, including social services, parent engagement and mental and physical health care. Partnerships include:
  • Joyful Market
  • Love and Carrots
  • Flamboyan Foundation
  • Change Summer
  • Soccer Shots
  • Trax Sports
  • Girls In Gear

Demographic

 
 
 
Serving the Ward 7 community, DC Scholars prides itself on putting students on the PATH to college while providing students with a foundation of life skills.
 
  • Founded 2012
  • Enrollment: 490
  • Serves PK3-8th

Classroom

 
 
 
 
Students receive rigorous and comprehensive instruction. DC Scholars focuses on individualizing each student’s learning experience.
 
  • Rigorous Instruction: All scholars experience meaningful and joyful learning opportunities that equip them with the knowledge base and critical thinking skills to become lifelong learners and compassionate, responsible members of our broader world.
  • Small Groups: DC Scholars accelerates the learning of every child. In addition to its high quality curriculum, DC Scholars offers daily small learning groups to provide each child with the academic support and caring encouragement they need to thrive.
  • Socio-emotional Learning: Every day, students begin the day with an interactive social skills lesson led by their homeroom teacher.
 

 Electives

 
DC Scholars offers a variety of extracurricular activities and youth leadership opportunities. Students can participate in cheerleading, basketball, yearbook, coding, chess, student government, and National Junior Honor’s Society.