Teach For America Placement Schools

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Where Corps Members Teach

Teach For America corps members in the greater Washington, D.C. area teach over 20,000 students in traditional and charter public schools in the District of Columbia and nearby Prince George’s County in Maryland. In the upcoming year, we will begin strategically placing corps members in clusters of feeder schools in D.C. Wards 7 and 8 to maximize our collective impact on these particular neighborhoods. Last year, 78% of corps members taught secondary education, 16% served in special education placements, and 88% taught at a school with at least one other Teach For America corps member.

Get to Know Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School

Langley Park-McCormick Elementary School is in Hyattsville, Maryland, just a few miles outside of Washington, D.C. Currently two corps members and four alumni teach there reaching pre-kindergarten through sixth grade students. Sixty-three percent of Langley’s students are Hispanic, and 30% are African American. Recently, a cluster of students were taught by three Teach For America corps members in a row – for first, second, and third grades. They were assessed at the beginning of their fourth year with a Teach For America corps member and the results were impressive – 86% of those students entering their third grade year already showed advanced proficiency on the Maryland State Exam, outpacing the average performance across all Prince Georges County public schools. Langley Park also made Adequate Yearly Progress, or AYP, this school year, a measure defined by the federal No Child Left Behind Act.