DC PCSB Transparency Hub

DC PCSB currently publishes a significant amount of information on this website and we want to make sure it is for families and others to find.  Find below quick links to answers to questions frequently requested by school leaders, families and community leaders.

General Information about each School 

Note: Click on the school's name to see this information.  

• The school's annual reports to DC PCSB, which contains
  • detailed information about each school and its activities
  • its report on attainment of its goals
  • key data, including average, minimum and maximum teacher salaries
• School academic calendar
• Student handbook, including 
  • Individual school's disciplinary policies
  • High school course offerings and graduation requirements (if applicable)
• Map showing the home location for every school
• PCSB review reports for each school, showing detailed performance information
• Results of PCSB's Qualitative Site Reviews for each school, showing results from in-depth classroom observations

Financial Information (by PCS)

• Budgets
• Audited financial statement
• Federal Tax Returns (990s)
• Breakdown of how schools spend their money, including the percent allocated to:
  • Occupancy
  • Salaries
  • Administration
• At-Risk funding expenditure plans
• Title I Funding 
• DC PCSB's Financial Analysis Report, which contains an analysis of each public charter school's fiscal health, highlighting areas of financial weakness
  • Details of all not-for-profit and for-profit management companies
  • Details of school expenditures on facilities

Charter information (this is essentially the contract between DC PCSB and individual public charter schools which lays out how that school will operate)

• Charter Applications (2012 to Present)
• Calendar for when school are subject to a review (by year) - High Stakes Review
• Charter Agreements and Amendments
  • Mission
  • Grades/ages
  • Charter goals and student academic achievement expectations
  • Graduation requirements
  • Board of Trustee bylaws
  • Enrollment ceiling (by year, for expanding schools)
  • Management Agreement, applicable

Other Information

• Title IX Coordinator Point of Contacts
• Healthy School Profiles
• Equity Reports (2012-2017) showing academic performance, discipline, and mid-year withdrawal rates, in many cases broken out by subgroup. (Note that much of the information in equity reports has been replaced by OSSE's DC School Report Card, launched in 2018)
• DC School Report Card includes
  • Academic attainment and proficiency, by subgroups
  • Discipline rates, by subgroup
  • Before & After School Care
  • Extracurricular Activities
  • Student Mobility
  • Title I Status 
  • Teacher and Health Staff Information
  • Per Pupil Expenditures (coming this year)

Information about DC PCSB

• ​Financial audits 
• DC PCSB Salaries
• DC PCSB policies
• Information about DC PCSB staff, board members and members of the Parent and Alumni Leadership Council (PALC)
• Board materials, minutes and transcripts, and links to board meeting videos
• Oversight testimony and responses to DC Council question since 2013
• Budget testimony and responses to DC Council question since 2013
• All other testimony by DC PCSB
• Annual discipline reports to the DC Council

The Board approved the School Transparency Policy at its March monthly board meeting. Click here to read the policy.

Contact [email protected] with questions or for help.