Goodwill Excel Center PCS

Washington · DC · Goodwill Excel Center PCS · Public charter


📋 At a glance

Academic signals
  • 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 24% (Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)

Composed from EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.

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How Goodwill Excel Center PCS compares for families

What families should know about Goodwill Excel Center PCS.

  • LocallyDC trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−12 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
  • vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Garnet-Patterson STAY HS, E.L. Haynes PCS - HS, Paul PCS - International HS and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.

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🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts

What % of students graduate on time?

Bottom 4% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate

50th 90th
4-year graduation rate
24%
Range: 20–29%
4-year cohort size
46
Students in the 9th-grade entry class tracked over 4 years
Compared against
17,988
US high schools reporting 4-year ACGR

Source: federal EDFacts ACGR (Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate), 2019 vintage via Urban Institute. EDFacts publishes a range (low-high) to preserve privacy on small cohorts; we display the midpoint.

Chronic absenteeism

Share of students absent 15+ days
122.7%
Well above the national average (~16%). At this level, chronic absence becomes a leading driver of enrollment loss as families rotate to other schools.
Students absent 15+ days
540
Federal definition: absent (excused or unexcused) for at least 15 of ~180 school days — about 10% of the school year.

Why this matters to enrollment: Chronic absence is the most reliable early indicator that a student will leave a school — either by transferring out, dropping out, or matriculating to a charter or private alternative. At this level, today's absentees become next year's enrollment loss and the year-after's revenue loss.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020–2021. Rate = students chronically absent ÷ 2024 total enrollment.

Enrollment trend & projection

Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).

If the recent trend holds…

At its recent rate of +1.8%/year, projecting from 2024's 440 students:

2025
448
2027
465
2029
482

An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.

Revenue upside

At $24,075 per student in district revenue, the 42 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $1,011,150/year in additional funding.

District total revenue ÷ enrollment, NCES F-33. Public funding largely follows enrollment, so a shrinking class is a recurring budget hit.

Most similar nearby high schools

The schools most like this one — same type, blended on distance and size — and where their enrollment is heading. These are the schools families here weigh against each other.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
Garnet-Patterson STAY HS
Washington
Public 1.6 432 +8.0%
E.L. Haynes PCS - HS
Washington
Public · charter 3.4 446 +0.7%
Paul PCS - International HS
Washington
Public · charter 4.5 439 +3.8%
Digital Pioneers Academy PCS - Capitol Hill
Washington
Public · charter 3.0 387 +230.8%
Washington Leadership Academy PCS
Washington
Public · charter 3.1 386 +0.0%
Cardozo Education Campus
Washington
Public 1.8 561 +26.1%
Thurgood Marshall Academy PCS
Washington
Public · charter 3.5 373 +7.5%
School Without Walls HS
Washington
Public 0.4 606 +1.5%

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