Best High Schools in District Of Columbia for Female Students

Check out our new feature available only on SchoolDigger: rankings for different groups of students in District Of Columbia!

Every year, the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education shares test results for various student groups in each school. We use these results to find out which schools do best for each group and list them from the best to the worst.

Additionally, we also compare the performance of the subgroup to the performance of the school as a whole. This makes it easy to see if, for example, Female students are overperforming or underperforming their peers in each school.

The list is updated annually upon the release of the PARCC test scores by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education. The most recent update was on Sunday, August 25, 2024.

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School															Students/Teachers											Per Pupil Expenditures (2023)							Ranking (Female vs All Students - 2019)
ID	Rank (of 31)	School	Type	Grades	Address	City	Zip	County	District	Is Charter	Is Magnet	Is Virtual	Is Title I	Phone	# Students	Full-time Teachers	Student/ Teacher Ratio	Free/Disc Lunch Recipients	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian	American Indian	Pacific Islander	Two or More Races	Per Pupil Expenditures: Total	Personnel from Federal Funds	Non-Personnel from Federal Funds	Total from Federal Funds	Personnel from State and Local Funds	Non-Personnel from State and Local Funds	Total from State and Local Funds	Statewide Rank Percentile (Female)	Statewide Rank Percentile (All Students)	Rank Percentile Difference from All Students	SchoolDigger Rating (Female)	SchoolDigger Rating (All Students)
110003000153	1	Benjamin Banneker High School	Public	9-12	1600 9th St. NW	Washington	20001	District Of Columbia	District of Columbia Public Schools	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(202) 671-6320	482	30	16		12 (2.5%)	362 (75.1%)	85 (17.6%)	14 (2.9%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	8 (1.7%)	$22,858			$3,357			$19,501	96.8%	97.1%	0.28%
110003000131	2	School Without Walls High School	Public	9-12	2130 G St. NW	Washington	20037	District Of Columbia	District of Columbia Public Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(202) 645-9690	592	37	16		282 (47.6%)	172 (29.1%)	68 (11.5%)	43 (7.3%)	1 (0.2%)	0 (0.0%)	26 (4.4%)	$24,881			$3,127			$21,754	93.5%	94.1%	0.57%
110001900423	3	Washington Latin PCS - Upper School	Public, Charter	9-12	5200 2nd Street NW	Washington	20011	District Of Columbia	Washington Latin PCS	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(202) 223-1111	328	38	8.6		130 (39.6%)	143 (43.6%)	31 (9.5%)	14 (4.3%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	10 (3.0%)	$23,334			$1,364			$21,969	90.3%	91.2%	0.85%
110003000267	4	McKinley Technology High School	Public	9-12	151 T St. NE	Washington	20002	District Of Columbia	District of Columbia Public Schools	No	(n/a)	No	Yes	(202) 281-3950	633	44	14.5		12 (1.9%)	530 (83.7%)	73 (11.5%)	6 (0.9%)	4 (0.6%)	1 (0.2%)	7 (1.1%)	$27,972			$3,568			$24,405	87.1%	88.2%	1.14%
110008300443	5	Basis Dc Pcs	Public, Charter	5-12	410 8th Street NW	Washington	20004	District Of Columbia	Basis Dc Pcs	Yes	(n/a)	No	No	(202) 804-6390	637	47	13.6		257 (40.3%)	215 (33.8%)	55 (8.6%)	47 (7.4%)	4 (0.6%)	1 (0.2%)	58 (9.1%)	$16,016			$927			$15,089	83.9%	79.4%	4.46%
110003000133	6	Jackson-Reed High School	Public	9-12	3950 Chesapeake St. NW	Washington	20016	District Of Columbia	District of Columbia Public Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(202) 282-0120	1,796	117	15.3		660 (36.7%)	554 (30.8%)	381 (21.2%)	111 (6.2%)	4 (0.2%)	10 (0.6%)	76 (4.2%)	$22,502			$3,278			$19,224	80.6%	82.4%	1.71%
110003400249	7	Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS	Public, Charter	9-12	2427 Martin Luther King Jr Av	Washington	20020	District Of Columbia	Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS	Yes	(n/a)	No	Yes	(202) 563-6862	392	35	11.2		0 (0.0%)	384 (98.0%)	7 (1.8%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	1 (0.3%)	$37,548			$5,082			$32,465	77.4%	85.3%	7.87%
110003100421	8	KIPP DC - College Preparatory PCS	Public, Charter	9-12	1405 Brentwood Parkway NE	Washington	20002	District Of Columbia	KIPP Dc Pcs	Yes	(n/a)	No	Yes	(202) 678-2527	802	76	10.5		0 (0.0%)	795 (99.1%)	6 (0.7%)	1 (0.1%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	$28,422			$3,053			$25,369	74.2%	76.5%	2.28%
110003000016	9	Duke Ellington School of the Arts	Public	9-12	3500 R St. NW	Washington	20007	District Of Columbia	District of Columbia Public Schools	No	(n/a)	No	No	(202) 282-0123	545	4	136.2		59 (10.8%)	393 (72.1%)	59 (10.8%)	8 (1.5%)	2 (0.4%)	1 (0.2%)	23 (4.2%)	$22,194			$3,067			$19,128	71.0%	73.5%	2.56%
110000800496	10	Friendship PCS - Technology Preparatory High School	Public, Charter	9-12	2705 Martin Luther King Jr Av	Washington	20032	District Of Columbia	Friendship PCS	Yes	(n/a)	No	Yes	(202) 562-1681	270	35	7.7		0 (0.0%)	268 (99.3%)	2 (0.7%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)	$32,599			$6,204			$26,394	67.7%	70.6%	2.85%

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About our rankings:

Schooldigger calculates school rankings based on PARCC Geometry, PARCC Integrated Math II, PARCC English II, PARCC Algebra I, PARCC Algebra II test scores released by the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.
These rankings were last updated on August 25, 2024, and are based on the most recent test scores available. We update rankings as we receive new test scores from the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education, usually on a yearly basis.
Our sources of data include the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education and the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.
For more information about our ranking process, please see our Ranking FAQ. Details about our methodology are here.

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SchoolDigger data sources: National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, the U.S. Census Bureau and the D.C. Office of the State Superintendent of Education.