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

Composed from federal CRDC offerings, EDFacts ACGR, 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: School Without Walls HS, BASIS DC PCS, Girls Global Academy PCS 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. For school leaders: an Enrollment Trend Audit traces this dynamic forward →

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 +1.1%/year, projecting from 2024's 440 students:

2025
445
2027
454
2029
464

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 24 students projected to be gained by 2029 represent ≈ $577,800/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.

Nearby high schools — the local competition

The closest high schools families here also consider, and where their enrollment is heading.

SchoolTypeMilesHS enrollmentTrend
School Without Walls HS
Washington
Public 0.4 606 +1.5%
BASIS DC PCS
Washington
Public · charter 1.0 233 +8.9%
Girls Global Academy PCS
Washington
Public · charter 1.0 183 +18.1%
Templeton Academy
Washington
Private 1.0 65
Fusion Academy Wdc: Washington D.C.
Washington
Private 1.2 42
Benjamin Banneker HS
Washington
Public 1.3 703 +30.9%
Richard Wright PCS for Journalism and Media Arts
Washington
Public · charter 1.5 277 -1.8%
Garnet-Patterson STAY HS
Washington
Public 1.6 432 +8.0%

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