Safe Passage Priority Areas for School Year 2025-2026

For school year 2025-26, more than 200 Safe Passage Ambassadors will support more than 120 pre-determined routes in 12 priority areas across the District. The Safe Passage priority areas for the 2025-2026 school year include:

Priority Areas:

Anacostia

Brookland

Congress Heights

Columbia Heights

Eastern/Stadium Armory

Fort Totten

L'Enfant

Minnesota Ave/Deanwood

NoMA

Potomac Ave

Petworth/Brightwood

Tenleytown

In each of the Safe Passage Priority Areas, regular calls or meetings are held between school leaders, MPD, DDOT, and Metro Transit Police to discuss student safety concerns, plan assistance that is provided to areas, and share strategies for improving safety. Feedback from each meeting is used to determine what additional supports are needed. When needed, government agencies participate in citywide safe passage campaigns by adopting an area and providing physical support during student arrival and dismissal.

About Safe Passage
In August 2017, the School Safety and Safe Passage Working Group collectively decided to focus on specific areas of the city to improve student safety as they travel to and from school. Areas were selected based on the number of student-involved incidents in the area using data from MTP