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Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School opened in 1998 in the basement of St. Stephen and the Incarnation Episcopal Church in Northwest DC with 35 kindergarten and first-grade students. By fall 2002, after adding a grade each year, the school moved to the corner of 16th and Park Road NW. Six years later, Stokes purchased its own building in the Brookland neighborhood of Northeast DC, expanding enrollment from 250 to 350 students and adding a music room, an art room, a library, a turf field, two playgrounds, and a garden. In 2018, Stokes expanded again, adding the East End campus, which enrolled 140 pre-kindergarten and kindergarten students that year and will eventually enroll 400 students. The school now operates two campuses, Brookland and East End.
The school operates two campuses in Washington, DC: Brookland Campus and East End Campus. The school teaches two language pairs—English and French, and English and Spanish—offering full-immersion preschool in French or Spanish; from kindergarten through fifth grade, the IB Primary Years Program is delivered in two languages with all faculty native speakers of the language in which they teach. The school hosts events and observances on its calendar, including Francophonie Month and Women's History Month in March 2026, and regular First Friday activities and other campus events that foster community and intercultural learning.
Elsie Whitlow Stokes Community Freedom Public Charter School operates across two DC campuses, Brookland and East End, serving students from PK3 through fifth grade (ages 3 to 11). The school delivers the International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme in a dual-immersion framework, with English plus a target language (Spanish or French) for content-area instruction. From Pre-K, 90% of instruction is in the target language; kindergarten to fifth grade use roughly half English and half the target language, with native-speaking teachers leading lessons. The campus facilities include a kitchen that prepares three meals daily from local ingredients, a garden program, a library, a music and art room, and outdoor spaces. The school is accredited by the Middle States Association and participates in Label FrancEducation and Learn24. Support services include MTSS and English Learner supports, with targeted 1:1 or small-group instruction as needed. The program emphasizes inquiry-based learning, intercultural understanding, and student voice.
