Coolidge HS
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Columbia Heights Education Campus → Roosevelt HS → District of Columbia International School → Dunbar HS → Eastern HS → McKinley Technology HS → Benjamin Banneker HS → Friendship PCS - Collegiate Academy →📋 At a glance
- 📚 9 AP courses offered — Elite
- ✅ Dual-enrollment program (college credit while in HS)
- 🎓 AP rigor: 73rd percentile nationally
- 📝 SAT/ACT participation: Bottom 29% by test-taker volume
- 🎓 4-yr grad rate: 67% (Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate)
Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts graduation data, and other public data. Full breakdowns below.
How Coolidge HS compares for families
Stronger-than-average college-prep profile.
- ▸ StatewideAP rigor at the 73rd percentile nationally with 9 AP courses.
- ▸ LocallyDC trails the US average on NAEP 8th-grade math (−12 points). Stronger local schools matter even more.
- ▸ vs Similar SchoolsThe closest comparables nearby: Columbia Heights Education Campus, Roosevelt HS, District of Columbia International School and 5 more. See the sidebar to compare side-by-side.
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🎓 Academic rigor
AP + advanced-course offerings
Elite — exceptional AP + advanced course breadth
73rd percentile nationally
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). CRDC reports what's offered + enrolled — it doesn't collect AP exam pass rates (College Board owns that data and doesn't release it school-level).
SAT / ACT participation
CRDC federal data · 2020-21Bottom 29% by test-taker volume
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2020-21). Volume — not score — is what's reported here. A higher count means more students at this school are entering the college admissions pipeline. Note: 2020-21 was COVID-disrupted; some districts (especially those that stayed remote longer) report unusually low or zero takers.
🎓 4-year graduation rate · federal EDFacts
What % of students graduate on time?
Bottom 13% of US high schools by 4-yr grad rate
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.
👩🏫 Teacher workforce · federal CRDC
Teacher experience & reliability
Source: federal Civil Rights Data Collection (CRDC 2017-18 — the most recent vintage that publishes per-school teacher quality fields; the 2020-21 sweep had them suppressed). "Inexperienced" = teachers in their first or second year. "Chronic absence" = teachers absent 10+ days/year.
Chronic absenteeism
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.
Counselor capacity
Source: U.S. Department of Education, Civil Rights Data Collection 2020-2021. Counselor ratio = the school's most recent total enrollment ÷ counselor FTE. The American School Counselor Association (ASCA) recommends a 250:1 maximum; the US national median across schools with on-staff counselors is roughly 430:1.
Enrollment trend & projection
Total enrollment + grade 12, NCES Common Core of Data (2021–2024).
If the recent trend holds…
At its recent rate of +11.2%/year, projecting from 2024's 1,029 students:
An extrapolation of the recent trajectory, not a forecast of the school's plans; ignores one-off shocks.
Revenue upside
At $33,365 per student in district revenue, the 722 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $24,089,530/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.
| School | Type | Miles | HS enrollment | Trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Columbia Heights Education Campus Washington |
Public | 2.8 | 1,028 | -1.5% |
| Roosevelt HS Washington |
Public | 1.8 | 943 | +18.3% |
| District of Columbia International School Washington |
Public · charter | 0.9 | 876 | +15.7% |
| Dunbar HS Washington |
Public | 4.1 | 892 | +22.5% |
| Eastern HS Washington |
Public | 5.7 | 909 | +18.7% |
| McKinley Technology HS Washington |
Public | 3.7 | 723 | +4.6% |
| Benjamin Banneker HS Washington |
Public | 3.8 | 703 | +30.9% |
| Friendship PCS - Collegiate Academy Washington |
Public · charter | 6.2 | 745 | +13.9% |