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High School Graduation Rates and Requirements

Learn more about each school's graduation rates, requirements, and transcript audit policies.

Graduation Requirements for DC Public Charter High Schools

  • BASIS DC PCS
  • Capital City PCS
  • César Chávez PCS for Public Policy - Parkside High School
  • DC International School
  • E.L. Haynes PCS
  • Friendship PCS - Collegiate Academy
  • Friendship PCS - Technology Preparatory
  • Goodwill Excel Center PCS
  • IDEA PCS
  • Kingsman Academy PCS
  • KIPP DC - College Preparatory Academy PCS
  • KIPP DC - Somerset College Prep
  • Maya Angelou PCS
  • National Collegiate Preparatory PCHS
  • Paul PCS - International School
  • Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts
  • SEED PCS of Washington, DC
  • Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS
  • Washington Latin PCS
  • Washington Leadership Academy PCS

 

Graduation Rates

 

Every public charter school offers rigorous graduation requirements.  Learn more about each school's graduation requirements and transcript audit policies.

Graduation rates are calculated by tracking the students who entered 9th grade and graduated from 12th grade within four or five years. And as part of its oversight, we verify that 9th-grade students are on track to graduate in four years and that 12th-grade students have met the school’s graduation requirements. To learn more about the Transcript Audit Policy, click here. 

We also evaluate a school’s performance on multiple measures, including 4- and 5- year graduation rates, which are both indicators of whether or not a student is ready for college or the workforce on its School Quality Report. The 2019 reports are available here.   

This year, 70.0% of students designated as “At-Risk” graduated in four years, an increase of 5.8% from last year. And the number of students with disabilities improved by 8.2% to 62.6%, while the number of Black students graduating increased by 5.8%.  

Grad rates

 

Learn more about each public charter high school's graduation requirements

Transcript Audit Policy

This policy explains the process by which DC PCSB verifies the status of 9th-grade students, to ensure they are on track to graduate in four years (one of the indicators measured in the Performance Management Framework) as well as the graduate status of 12th-grade students to ensure they are on track to be included on the certified graduates list.
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High School Graduation Requirements Approval Process Policy

Graduation Requirements Approval Process Policy
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