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Paul Public Charter School
Location
5800 8th Street NW Washington, DC 20011 United States
Information
Type	Charter school
Established	2000
Head of school	Shaliman Olorunoje
Grades	5-12
Enrollment	747
Athletics conference	PCSAA and DCSAA
Mascot	Pirate
Website	www.paulcharter.org

Paul Public Charter School is a charter school in northwest Washington, D.C., serving students from fifth to twelfth grade.

History

Paul is named for Edward A. Paul, the first principal of Washington High School from 1877 to 1888. Paul was born in Haverhill in 1855 and graduated from high school in Lawrence before graduating from Dartmouth College in 1876. He moved immediately to Washington, D.C., to become a schoolteacher and, after a year, took over the Advanced Grammar School for Boys in Columbia Heights as its only teacher and principal. The experimental school was chosen instead of a high school as some objected to the establishment of a high school. Later, the Advanced Grammar School for Boys and a similar one for girls were combined to create Washington High School (the current Cardozo Education Campus). In 1885, he briefly served as acting superintendent of schools. In 1888, he died in a traffic collision when his bicycle was run down from behind by a horse-drawn carriage.

The school opened its doors as a public charter junior high school in 2000. The first and only public school in Washington, D.C. to convert to a charter, it was originally founded in 1930. The first high school class graduated in 2016.

In 2015, a renovation and expansion of the school building was completed.

References

1. What’s In A Name: Profiles of the Trailblazers (PDF). Washington, DC: Women of the Dove Foundation 501(c)(3). 2010. p. 60. Archived from the original (PDF) on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2017.
2. "Principal Paul Killed" (PDF). The Evening Star. 2 April 1888. Retrieved 25 March 2016.
3. Wexler, Natalie (24 September 2013). "Can Paul PCS and other charters thrive without private funds?". ggwash.org. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
4. "Paul Public Charter School". Jair Lynch Real Estate Partners. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
5. "Paul Public Charter School by Shinberg.Levinas Architects". Architizer. 2015-12-07. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

External links

• Official site

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