page_title: Marshall Heights (Washington, D.C.)
section_title: Schools
hierarchical_section_title: Marshall Heights (Washington, D.C.) / About Marshall Heights / Schools
caption_attribution_description: English: Image of the front entrance to the C.W. Harris Elementary School in the Marshall Heights neighborhood of Washington, D.C., in 2012.
context_page_description: Marshall Heights is a residential neighborhood in Southeast Washington, D.C. It is bounded by East Capitol Street, Central Avenue SE, Southern Avenue, Fitch Street SE, and Benning Road SE. It was an undeveloped rural area occupied by extensive African American shanty towns, but the neighborhood received nationwide attention after a visit by First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt in 1934, which led to extensive infrastructure improvements and development for the first time. In the 1950s, Marshall Heights residents defeated national legislation designed to raze and redevelop the neighborhood. Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom visited the area in 1991, at a time when Marshall Heights was in the throes of a violent crack cocaine epidemic. Limited redevelopment has occurred in the neighborhood, which was the site of two notorious child murders in 1973.
context_section_description: Two elementary schools, C.W. Harris and J.C. Nalle, are located within Marshall Heights. The $1 million Harris school began construction in 1960, and was finished in 1964. It underwent a renovation in 1992, a heating system replacement in 2002, and a superficial refurbishment in 2012. Nalle opened in 1950, and became the city's first community school in the late 1990s. It underwent a $6.8 million renovation in 2012. Declining enrollment led the city to close Fletcher-Johnson Middle School in 2008. The city had promised to spend $65 million to replace or upgrade all three schools, but only Nalle was renovated.
  The neighborhood is also served by Kelly Miller Middle School and H.D. Woodson Senior High School, both of which are located just a few blocks north of Marshall Heights in the Lincoln Heights neighborhood.
  Four charter schools are located in the former Fletcher-Johnson Middle School: KIPP D.C., KEY Academy Public Charter School, LEAP Academy Public Charter School, and Promise Academy Public Charter School. All four are operated by the KIPP charter school organization. Two more charter schools are located in the Capitol View neighborhood, adjacent to Marshall Heights to the northeast. As with all D.C. residents, children in Marshall Heights may submit their name in the city's lottery, to win placement in a charter school or out-of-boundary public school.
caption: C.W. Harris Elementary School in 2012.
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