Demand for a public charter school education continues to grow as evidenced by the wait list analysis released Monday by the D.C. Public Charter School Board.
Overall, there are 8,640 individual students on wait lists to attend one or more participating public charter schools in the 2016-17 school year, a 1.3 percent increase from last year’s 8,526 students.
All totaled, 20,880 students are on a wait list at any PK-12 school, up from 18,835 last year.