VISUALIZED AMERICAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS · DC
District of Columbia Public Schools
The canvas comes first: every public school district in District of Columbia, drawn from the federal boundary files. The data layers — enrollment change, funding, teachers, achievement — are built on top of this map, Missouri-style, in phases.
THE DISTRICT MAP
School district boundaries
Hover any district for its name. Boundaries are the 2024–25 school-year files from NCES EDGE / U.S. Census TIGER.
MAP IN PREPARATION
The District of Columbia district boundary file hasn’t been generated yet.
Run scripts/make_boundaries.sh to rebuild boundaries/district-of-columbia.geojson, then redeploy.
Source: NCES EDGE Composite School District Boundaries, 2024–25 (via U.S. Census TIGER/Line). Unified school districts.
One district is drawn on this map.
A note about charter schools. Charter schools enroll about 47.8% of District of Columbia’s public-school students, and they are not represented on this map. In District of Columbia most charters are authorized by the DC Public Charter School Board rather than by school districts: they operate outside the district system, are usually their own local education agency, and often enroll students across district lines. So this map describes District of Columbia’s geographic district system — not its whole public-school population. That distinction matters here more than in most states, and it will matter for every data layer built on top of this map.