Center City Public Charter Schools (PCS) opened its doors in 2008 with a community of nearly 1500 of the District’s youth and over 150 instructional staff.

Center City PCS educates students throughout the nation’s capital. With a focus on the communities we serve, our schools are named after their neighborhoods: Brightwood, Capitol Hill, Congress Heights, Petworth, Shaw, and Trinidad.

Our students are representative of the diversity and character of Washington, DC. Our families speak multiple languages and come from various backgrounds, and our students have a multitude of skills and talents that we, as schools, work to develop and nurture.

As the first Catholic-to-charter school conversion in the United States, Center City PCS is a new entity, unaffiliated with the Archdiocese, which provides a free public education to DC’s families. However, the schools are still located in the same buildings where students have been educated for over a century—honoring a history that Center City PCS continues to build upon.