Featured EdScape

The Public School Facility Locations and Changes map displays public school facilities operating in Washington, DC. Users can filter the following map to display the school facilities operating in SY2022-23 to SY2024-25 that offer specific grades, are located within a specific ward, or operate as DCPS or public charter schools, as well as search by school name. The other tabs list the schools in SY2024-25 that are in temporary locations (or "swinging") due to modernizations or have relocated to a new or permanent location, as well that schools have grown or shrunk a grade compared to the previous year.

About EdScape

EdScape, short for “education landscape,” is a comprehensive set of interactive visualizations and downloadable datasets on topics essential to inform and coordinate the opening and siting of programs and schools in Washington, DC. This information, compiled by the Office of the Deputy Mayor for Education (DME), will support data transparency and help build a coherent public education system. The information critical to help answer these questions falls into three pillars of information: facilities, school quality, and student demand. This new source of information was created in response to a recommendation from the Cross Sector Collaboration Task Force.

The DME has two main goals for EdScape: 1) Act as the source of information used to determine whether and where new schools, programs, or facility capacity may be needed and 2) Provide the public with the same information available to policy makers for transparency purposes. EdScape is not designed for and should not be used by parents and students to determine their school options; instead, resources like OSSE Report Cards, My School DC School Finder, DCPS School Profiles, and the DC Public Charter School Board’s School Quality Reports should be used for this purpose.

Topics are organized by chapters, and each chapter has a supplementary document with key takeaways per topic. The following topics from the facilities and student demand categories are included: school-age population and public school students, public schools, facilities, enrollment patterns, and neighborhood factors.