The DC School Report Card remains the District’s one-stop shop for all comparable data about public schools in the District of Columbia on a sleek, mobile- and tablet-friendly website. OSSE publishes the DC School Report Card every year to provide parents, families, and the public with as much helpful information about schools as we can, from bus lines that students use to get to school (which all received new names and routes from WMATA prior to the 2025-26 school year!) to student growth. In previous blogs, we have detailed how much work we do with local education agencies (LEAs) to ensure every bit of information on the DC School Report Card is accurate, which you can read about here.
As of December 2025, the website is now live and ready for you to dive in. We wanted to share a few headlines from this year’s edition.
DC Survey About Your School (DC SAYS) Data
As we have written about before, OSSE is delighted with the response rates across the District in our first administration of DC SAYS. We heard from 48,745 students (76 percent), 10,036 staff (55 percent), and 14,590 parents. We appreciate our LEAs for administering the surveys to their students, promoting it to their staff, and spreading the word to their parents and families. This is a baseline year for the data. We are encouraged by the results and look forward to learning more about what is working well in our schools and how we can improve our supports. On the DC School Report Card, you can see the results by topic at the state, LEA, and school levels (the screenshot below is at the state level).
Course Information
After a few years of collaborative work with LEAs, this year is the first time that the Course Data Collection data will be publicly shared. We are sharing data from all public school students, including those enrolled at nonpublic schools, in the 2025-26 school year. This is the third year of this collection, and we have had full participation from LEAs each year.
The LEA courses are all mapped to courses in the OSSE State Course Catalog, which is built off of a national system used by other states and allows us to easily compare across LEAs. For example, you can easily find DC History courses, regardless of the name given by the LEA.
You can access the course catalog, which is in Excel form, on the DC School Report Card here.
Graduation Rate
The 2025 DC School Report Card also shares some wonderful news - the District’s four-year adjusted cohort graduation (ACGR) rate has grown by 2.6 percentage points, to 78.7 percent in the 2024-25 school year. As you can see from the chart below, graduation rates have been rising for the last six years, setting a new high mark for the District.
We will write more about graduation rates in this space in the near future, but the data is now all live on the DC School Report Card (the screenshot below is the state-level data).
Learn More
The best way to learn more about the DC School Report Card is to use it! Share your thoughts, questions and ideas for future improvements via email at [email protected].