Quality Seats in DC

School Quality Report (PMF)

The School Quality Report (PMF) is the DC Public Charter School Board’s (DC PCSB) annual accountability tool for assessing and monitoring public charter school performance.  Based on academic and leading indicators such as attendance, re-enrollment, and college acceptance, schools earn points that are calculated into a percentage score that places the schools into one of three tiers (i.e., Tier 1 school is high-performing; Tier 2 is mid-performing; Tier 3 is low-performing).

School Quality

It is our mission to provide quality public charter school options to students and families.  Today, more families are moving back into the city and since 2011, the increase of children living in Washington, DC has outpaced the growth of the adult population.  As an authorizer, we are committed to effective and rigorous oversight, leading to closure or improvement of low-performing schools and expansion of high-performing schools. 

We do this by setting tough academic standards, using a comprehensive charter application review, providing meaningful support and actively involving parents, school leaders, the community and policymakers. 

As a result, several public charter schools who have consistently reached Tier 1 status have expanded.

And, most public charter schools with a Tier 3 rating have closed and five have improved.  In fact, we have closed one-eighth of our low-performing public charter schools in the past four years.

In effect, our strong oversight has led to more available seats in high-performing public charter schools and fewer seats in low-performing public charter schools, as witnessed by the chart below.