U.S. Census government inventory · ID 101868

District of Columbia Public Schools.

Dependent school system in District of Columbia · Census county area: Washington Dc.

Dependent school systemMunicipalFunctioning
School system at a glance

Students, schools, and public money.

Election.org connected this entity to its fiscal year 2024 Census finance record by exact government ID and to its 2024–25 NCES district and school directory by exact agency ID.

50,839students in the finance record
117operating schools connected
$31,529current spending per pupil
Six years of enrollment and school finance

See what changed—not just one year.

Exact federal identifiers connect 6 annual Census records for this system. Source dollars stay visible, while spending changes are also converted to constant 2024 dollars.

Census annual tables ↗
Enrollment50,8393.6% higher than 2019
Current spending / pupil$31,52914.7% higher than 2019 after inflation · 40.7% higher than 2019 nominal
Total expenditure$2.0B26.4% higher than 2019 · nominal
Debt outstanding$0.0No reported debt in 2019 or 2024
Enrollment reported by Census
2019: 49,065; 2020: 50,971; 2021: 49,896; 2022: 48,635; 2023: 49,687; 2024: 50,83951,29849,80348,308201920202021202220232024
Current spending per pupil (2024 dollars)
2019: $27,492; 2020: $27,702; 2021: $28,403; 2022: $29,396; 2023: $32,562; 2024: $31,529$33,272$30,027$26,782201920202021202220232024
Funding mix over time

Federal, state, and local shares

20198.7% F0.0% S91.3% L
20208.2% F0.0% S91.8% L
202110.0% F0.0% S90.0% L
202213.8% F0.0% S86.2% L
202310.9% F0.0% S89.1% L
202413.9% F0.0% S86.1% L
View the 2019–2024 values as a table
YearEnrollmentSpending / pupilTotal revenueTotal expenditureDebt
201949,065$22,406$1,526,358,000$1,575,938,000$0
202050,971$22,856$1,590,525,000$1,650,142,000$0
202149,896$24,535$1,664,792,000$1,689,635,000$0
202248,635$27,425$1,597,449,000$1,662,769,000$0
202349,687$31,629$1,881,552,000$1,943,297,000$0
202450,839$31,529$1,926,103,000$1,992,562,000$0

Source-reported nominal dollars. Amount fields are converted from source thousands to dollars. No inflation adjustment is applied. An exact identifier links published source rows; it does not erase consolidations, closures, reorganizations, or other real institutional changes between years. Constant-dollar comparisons use BLS CPI-U series CUUR0000SA0, annual U.S. city average; this is not a local cost-of-living index. Joined by exact Census PID6 or NCES LEAID; names are never used.

Schools this system operates

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NCES source ↗
Where the money comes from

$1.93B in reported revenue.

Census finance source ↗
Federal13.9%$267M
State0.0%$0
Local86.1%$1.66B
Total expenditures$1.99B
Current spending$1.68B
Instruction$855M
Support services$748M
Capital outlay$314M
Debt outstanding$0

Fiscal year 2024. Census source amounts are published in thousands of dollars and converted here to dollars; per-pupil fields are published as dollar amounts. Revenue percentages are reproduced from the source.

District contact

District of Columbia Public Schools

Regular public school district that is not a component of a supervisory union

GradesPK12
StatusOpen
Address1200 First St NE, Washington, DC, 20002
Open district website →
Still needed for a complete civic record

The federal layer is useful—but it is not the whole school board.

  • Current board members, seat structure, terms, and vacancies
  • Next board election, candidates, filing rules, and past results
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  • Meeting agendas, minutes, votes, policies, and public-record links
  • School-level outcomes, audited contracts and vendors, and inflation-adjusted spending comparisons
The source record

A functioning Census entity.

The Census ACTIVE field is Y for this record.

Census ID
101868
Record type
Dependent school system
Classification
Municipal
School level
Elementary and Secondary
Status
Functioning
Published contact fields

Contact and location

Mailing address825 NORTH CAPITOL ST. NE · WASHINGTON, DC · 20003
Census contact/title fieldDirector
County areaWashington Dc

Websites are primarily self-reported and received only limited Census Bureau quality control. County area can mean the area most served or the headquarters county when boundaries cross counties.

Published context

Scale and parent relationship

Estimated enrollment49,6872023

Parent governmentWashington DcOpen parent record →

Evidence boundary

What each source proves—and what it does not.

Established by the published records

  • The entity or system appears in the 2025 Census listing.
  • Its Census category, identifier, and functioning/dormant field.
  • Only the location, function, population, enrollment, and contact fields actually published.

Not established by these records

  • Whether each governing or administrative role is elected, appointed, or mixed.
  • The exact geographic service boundary or that a reported website remains current.