Middle · Regular · Grades 5 to 8

KIPP DC - KEY Academy PCS, Washington, DC

Charter schoolCEP schoolKIPP DC - KEY Academy PCS is a public middle school in Washington, part of KIPP DC PCS. It enrolled 422 students in 2024-25, with 12.4 students per full-time teacher.

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 422
Teachers (FTE): 34.0
Students per teacher: 12.4
Grades: 5 to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 12.6. The District of Columbia average across schools is 11.0. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school12.4

District12.6

District of Columbia11.0

United States15.3

School details

Address: 4801 Benning Road SE, Washington, DC 20019
Phone: (202)582-5477
District: KIPP DC PCS
County: District of Columbia
Level: Middle
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 110003100246

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School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.

Direct certification: 254Students certified through programs such as SNAP, without an application.
Community Eligibility Provision: Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Other middle schools in KIPP DC PCS

KIPP DC - AIM Academy PCS 435 students
KIPP DC - Northeast Academy PCS 345 students
KIPP DC - WILL Academy PCS 341 students
KIPP DC - Valor Academy PCS 340 students
KIPP DC - Honor Academy PCS 328 students

Middle schools elsewhere in Washington

Deal Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Hardy Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Ida B. Wells Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
MacFarland Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Stuart-Hobson Middle School (Capitol Hill Cluster) District of Columbia Public Schools
Eliot-Hine Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Jefferson Middle School Academy District of Columbia Public Schools
Washington Latin PCS - Middle School Washington Latin PCS
Washington Latin PCS - Anna Julia Cooper Middle School Washington Latin PCS
Brookland Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Hart Middle School District of Columbia Public Schools
Capital City PCS - Middle School Capital City PCS

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.