Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School 3.97

The Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School maintains a nurturing environment where culturally diverse faculty and staff model compassion, fairness, service to others, enthusiasm for learning, and the capacity to contribute to and thrive within a community setting. In our work with students, Stokes School prepares young learners to challenge national and international academic standards, to navigate successfully within their own communities and within the cultures of others, and to function as responsible citizens and leaders.


Stokes School is proud of our commitment to continual assessment and improvement. In the past couple of years, we have made some great achievements.

* In 2011, Stokes School was the first D.C. school to receive the Gold Award of Distinction from the USDA in recognition of our efforts in the HealthierUS School Challenge. Our win was later covered on the Let's Move! blog.

* School’s first graduating class of sixth grade scholars, the class of 2004, just completed their first years of college at prestigious institutions like Kent State, Penn State, and Harvard University.