DC Prep -- Benning Elementary Campus in Washington

Category	Rating	Details
Test Scores	7/10	The Test Score Rating examines how students at this school performed on standardized tests compared with other schools in the state. The Test Rating was created using 2025 District of Columbia Comprehensive Assessments of Progress in Education data from DC Public Schools.

Posted: March 12, 2024

My daughter is in 3rd grade and this is her first year as a Preppie. Her experience has been nothing short of amazing! The staff and leadership support has been phenomenal!
My daughters love for learning has soared. She is excited to go to school everyday.
DC Prep Benning is a true gem.

Posted: March 12, 2024

Posted: November 21, 2023

My kids teachers Ms.warren and Ms. Carr are really helpful with being available outside of work hours for questions about homework.

Posted: November 21, 2023

Great experience so far. My daughters first year and she loves it

Posted: November 21, 2023

My preppies have both grown tremendously this school year!

Posted: November 21, 2023

Dc Prep cares about their students and families

Posted: November 21, 2023

My children has been attending DC Prep since 2013. They have helped my children grow in smart, intelligent and outgoing young girls. My daughter's have maintained Honor Roll from kindergarten to 7th grade!

Posted: November 21, 2023

I love how at dc prep my children are being challenged and are excelling since theyve been here for 3 months.

Posted: November 21, 2023

I love itdefinitely love the way my children are learning

Posted: November 21, 2023

Dc prep is a hands on learning school and I really love that they interact with the kids.

Posted: November 21, 2023

In my opinion my experience is great! My daughter love the school her teacher and the community!

Posted: November 21, 2023

Its been an awesome experience here at Dc Prep My preppie loves it here. He is always excited to come home and share what he have learned.

Posted: November 21, 2023

Love everything about DC PREP! I have been a DC PREP PROUD PARENT for 7 years .

Posted: November 21, 2023

I love the school for my children

Posted: November 21, 2023

Great community, very engaged and involved with students and parents

Posted: November 21, 2023

DC Prep is an amazing school that puts not only the learning first but the students as well.

Posted: November 21, 2023

Love this school, great learning for my child

Posted: November 21, 2023

Wonderful experience with amazing teacher/faculty engagement and excitement.

Posted: November 21, 2023

I absolutely love this school my daughter has learned so much since shes been here

Posted: November 21, 2023

Posted: August 14, 2015

My family is moving into our second academic year with DC Prep BEC and I must say that I wish my lottery results had been stronger so that I could move my children to a more developmentally appropriate school. While I value structure and discipline as general principles that students must learn, I feel that DC Prep goes a bit overboard with their militaristic regime. My 3 year old especially struggled to meet the classroom expectations and consistently earned consequences for things like talking, asking questions and moving...did I mention that he is 3?

Posted: May 8, 2015

DC Prep has a commitment to "Excellence, Always" that I appreciate. Everyone here works hard -- Preppies, teachers, parents and administrators -- with a outcome driven focus of "results for students, first and foremost." The school has improved every year that I have been here. I'm really excited about the newly renovated building, the partnership with DC Public Library, and the year-over-year improvements we've seen to the curriculum. As previous posters have mentioned, the educational approach can at times feel very strict -- however, those (like myself and most of the parents I talk with) who believe in keeping a high bar in terms of student expectations recognize that a warm/strict balance helps to push students to reach their full potential.

Posted: November 11, 2014

Agree 100% with EVERYTHING the commenter from June 2014 said. Every word is truth and describes my own sentiments. No wonder there is such a huge retention problem, with students and faculty alike. This is nothing more than a military academy with militant beliefs and policies disguised as a public charter school.

Posted: June 22, 2014

This is an extremely high performing school for both students and staff. The issue is, nothing is fun. Say what you want about joyful movement breaks and silent cheers...but it's not fun. The curriculum needs to include more recess or free time for kids to actually interact with one another so they can practice the culture lessons from each morning meeting in a safe space. I do believe a lot of the early childhood expectations on behavior are developmentally inappropriate. This school does not lack passion, determination, kindness or grit. It just lacks common sense. Something is dead wrong with wanting a room full of first graders to be silent all day, even during lunch. Something is off about taking away recess from kids that are antsy from sitting with a bubble in their mouth for 4 hours. Those are exactly the kids that need the recess in order to turn their day around. As for the actual teachers, I think they all have good hearts but are just run to the ground by an extremely results driven, data enthusiastic administration that wants to hear no kids in the hallway and put a test score next to each kids face.

Posted: January 5, 2014

My school is purposeful in its growth, a welcoming community, and constantly aiming for excellence

Posted: December 15, 2013

I have been a teacher here for 2 years and in ALL grades there's a great balance between strong academics and "developmentally appropriate" community/culture building activities, play, etc. Kids earn incentives like Friday on the Field, have community meetings as a grade level and morning meetings in their classroom, and instruction around character traits like respectfulness, teamwork, and honesty is provided through authentic conversations with students "in the moment". Yes, our kids work HARD and our staff works even harder to be sure that every kid reaches their academic and personal goals... this means that everybody sweats the small stuff, but there's also a lot of joy, love, and humor in interactions amongst the staff and between staff and students. The level of detail with which staff at our school plans for every minute of instruction is hard work, yes, but this allows us to make sure every child is challenged academically and personally - no matter what. I have worked in other area schools before and never have I been on a staff whose approach to teaching every child is so individualized. I love being part of a team where every kid gets exactly what they need to succeed.

Posted: December 3, 2013

My daughter has been at this school for 3 years and I have nothing but good things to say. All of her teachers have been very good. She is in Kindergarten and they do give her a lot of homework but I know this will help her in the long run. I am a little disappointed about the schools turn over but all in all I love the education that my daughter is receiving.

Posted: August 4, 2013

This school claims to be a high performing, but is actually a turnover machine that burns out both teachers and students with their unrealistic expectations and rules. The school is led by a very inexperienced leadership team that knows nothing about what is best for teachers or students, and instead forces staff members to implement a developmentally inappropriate model of education where creative thinking and individuality suffer at the expense of a high-stakes, militaristic atmosphere. I only hope that the community members in Benning are able to advocate on behalf of their children, and the school will start to listen to the people it is supposed to be serving.

Posted: May 29, 2012

The teachers at this school are beyond dedicated, however, the administration runs them into the ground. There is no regard for teacher morale nor what is appropriate for children at this level. There is no time built into the day for interaction/socialization and because of this, many of the children have very poor social skills. Many of the older students and parents are extremely disrespectful to the teachers/staff.

Posted: September 24, 2011

My rating is from 2010 -2011 school season. Last year and the year before was acedimically great,but some admin. and staff where unprofessional and disrespectful to my child and I. Also, they had some parents bullied me because I was different then them and my child. i am proud to say that those bad people are no longer there. When i said different, i am talking about my attitude was too nice for them.

Posted: August 4, 2011

This school has rigorous program but very developmentally inappropriate for early childhood. The new leadership and founder are completely disconnected from the community and the culture of the students. The feel that they should push ideology on parents because they think that they know more. I would not recommend employment because teachers are not valued and they have a very high turn over rate.

Posted: April 12, 2011

The school is big on Academics, and nothing else. Your child will learn, that's for sure, but nothing else is offered. The administration at this campus is changing, so hopes for the best, as the outgoing administration did not appear to be too interested in solicting or resolving parent feedback. The CEO, she too has some issues, and she can be somewhat resistant to critique. And again, overall, the school will provide your child with a good academic cirriculum, but not much else.

#	Name	Type	City	State	Distance
1	The VIO	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Washington SW	DC	3.5 mi
2	Reserve at Potomac Yard	Apartment Complex	Alexandria	VA	6.9 mi
3	Rivergate	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	7.4 mi
4	Takoma Park	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Takoma Park	MD	7.4 mi
5	Beverly Hills	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	7.6 mi
6	Twenty400	Apartment Complex	Arlington	VA	7.8 mi
7	Henry	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	7.9 mi
8	Fords Landing	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	8.3 mi
9	Shirlington	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Arlington	VA	8.4 mi
10	The Willoughby	Condominium/Townhouse	Chevy Chase	MD	9.2 mi
11	Midtown Alexandria Station	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	9.5 mi
12	Hillandale	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Silver Spring	MD	9.7 mi
13	Belle View	Condominium/Townhouse	Alexandria	VA	9.9 mi
14	Burgundy Woods	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Alexandria	VA	10.1 mi
15	Forest Knolls	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Silver Spring	MD	10.3 mi
16	Leeway Overlee - N Arlington	Neighborhood/Subdivision	Arlington	VA	10.6 mi

#	Name	City	State	Distance
1	Capitol Hill	Washington	DC	3.1 mi
2	Washington DC	Washington D.C.	DC	4.2 mi
3	Georgetown	Washington	DC	5.9 mi
4	Pentagon City	Arlington	VA	7 mi
5	Silver Spring	Silver Spring	MD	8.2 mi
6	National Harbor	Fort Washington	MD	8.2 mi
7	Old Town Alexandria	Alexandria	VA	8.5 mi
8	Arlington	Arlington	VA	9.5 mi
9	White Oak	Silver Spring	MD	9.7 mi

Base	Distance
Marine Barracks Washington	2.8 mi.
Washington Navy Yard	3 mi.
Coast Guard Headquarters DC	4.1 mi.
Fort McNair	4.1 mi.
Bolling AFB Joint Base Anacostia	5.2 mi.
Pentagon	6.1 mi.
Andrews AFB	6.6 mi.
Henderson Hall	7.1 mi.
Fort Myer	7.3 mi.
Mark Center Alexandria	10.1 mi.
Walter Reed Medical Center	11.1 mi.
Defense Health Headquarters Falls Church	14.3 mi.
Fort Belvoir	16.6 mi.
Fort Meade NSA	17.9 mi.
Indian Head Naval Base	24.3 mi.
US Naval Academy	25.4 mi.
Annapolis Naval Station	26.4 mi.
NRO Chantilly	27.2 mi.
Coast Guard Curtis Bay	29.4 mi.
Quantico Marine Base	36.6 mi.
Dahlgren NSWC	38.1 mi.
Fort Detrick	45.8 mi.

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