Washington DC Yearbooks · local yearbook sales
Sell your Washington DC yearbook the local way: your price, your deadline, your town.
This is the sales side of the book for the 245 open public schools in Washington DC -- the ones overseen by the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education. Your school sets its own price, opens its own sale, picks the date ordering closes, and sells to its own families. They sit under 72 reporting districts, 63 of which were operating in the 2024 directory, and a sale belongs to one school rather than to any of those districts. Nothing here routes your families through a national order line or a regional rep who has never been to your building.
No contract and no minimum order. Print on demand. Card charging is switched off across the platform today — see the money for exactly what that means. Already set up? Sign in.
Built for schools in Washington DC
Real local detail, not a template: here is the Washington DC this site serves.
Public schools overseen by
DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education
The agency your school already answers to. We are a vendor to your school, not a party to that oversight.
Counted in the 2024 directory
247 schools across 72 districts
Public school and district rows for Washington DC in the NCES Common Core of Data, 2024 -- 245 of those schools were still open in that directory.
Families the sale reaches
100,335 students enrolled
Public-school enrollment reported across Washington DC in the same directory -- the small schools, not only the big ones.
Washington DC by the numbers
Public, checkable figures for Washington DC, from the NCES Common Core of Data (2024 school year, via the Urban Institute mirror) -- not a marketing estimate.
School districts
Public school LEAs reporting to the CCD in Washington DC, 2024.
Open public schools
Individual public schools in Washington DC that were still open in that directory and could run their own sale.
Students enrolled
Total public-school enrollment reported across every Washington DC district.
Washington DC’s school-year calendar
A sourced start/end window for Washington DC’s academic year is not on this page today -- we would rather say that plainly than publish a guessed date. Your own school’s calendar -- not ours -- sets your actual close date either way.
How a Washington DC school runs its own sale
Four decisions, all of them yours. None of them require a call to us.
Step 1
You set the price
Your school decides what its book costs and keeps the revenue on it. The figure is resolved on our side against your school's own price book and clamped to a floor so nothing can be sold below what it costs to make -- a total is never taken from whatever the browser sends. Two of the 247 Washington DC schools counted on this page can price the same book differently, and neither has to ask us.
Step 2
You open the sale
The book is a real sellable item in the store, in the classbook lane alongside the other things a Washington DC school sells its families. Each item is identified by a code we parse server-side, so what a family is buying, and for which term, cannot be edited on the way in -- the same check for an order from any school in the 72 districts counted on this page.
Step 3
You pick the close date
Print runs are the reason a yearbook deadline is real. You choose the date ordering closes, and every reminder below is anchored to that date rather than to a calendar we imposed on Washington DC. A Washington DC school that closes ordering in March and one that closes in May are both doing it right, and the sequence below follows whichever date you set.
Step 4
You watch it convert
Views and orders are counted per product, so you can see whether the sale is actually moving before the deadline arrives instead of finding out in the print order. That is your school's own number, not an average across the 247 schools counted on this page and not a benchmark against any one of them.
What a Washington DC family actually orders
The same three things whether the family belongs to the largest of the 245 open Washington DC schools or to the smallest.
The book itself
A copy of this year’s yearbook, sold as a real item in the store rather than a form a parent prints, loses, and mails back in June. The order carries which book and which school year, decided on our side rather than taken from the buyer.
A name on the cover
A family can add a foil or embossed name to their copy. Because that text gets physically pressed into a cover, it is validated on our side before it can reach a print file — a typo caught in software is cheaper than a typo in foil, and the foil press does not care which of the 245 open Washington DC schools sent the file.
Whatever else your school sells
The yearbook sits in the same store as the rest of what a Washington DC school sells its families, so a parent who came for the book is not sent to a second site to buy anything else. Some lanes are live and some are still drafts; the honest list is at the bottom of this page.
The deadline sequence is real, and it runs on your date
A yearbook sale is decided in its last two weeks. This is not a reminder you have to remember to send — it is a sequence anchored to the close date you set, which is why two Washington DC schools that picked different close dates can be at completely different points in it on the same Tuesday.
Seven days out
The sale is announced
The first message goes out a week before your close date — your date, not a Washington DC date we picked.
Three days out
A reminder
The same families, escalating copy, three days before ordering closes.
Twelve hours out
Last call
The final notice, half a day before the sale ends. In practice this is the one that pays for the print run.
Every one of those three is gated by the family’s own marketing preference for yearbook-sale messages, per category, with an unsubscribe in the footer. A receipt for something a family actually ordered is a different kind of message and is not gated by that switch — you cannot turn off the receipt for your own order. None of it involves the DC Office of the State Superintendent of Education; your sale calendar is your school’s business.
How the money works — and what is switched off today
Every item is priced above a code-enforced cost floor, so nothing can be sold below what it costs to make. Your school keeps the larger share of a sale, and a fundraiser gift is never skimmed by the platform. The specific numbers are set for your program at onboarding, which is why you will not find a price on this page — a book from a Washington DC school with a dozen graduating families and a book from one with hundreds are not the same book and should not carry the same figure.
Card charging is switched off across the whole platform right now. Not on this page, not on any of them, and not only in Washington DC. Wiring a live payment key changes nothing on its own — the rail stays closed until we deliberately turn it on. So today a Washington DC school can build the book, open a sale, and set its price and close date, but a family cannot be charged yet. We would rather tell you that in plain words than show you a checkout button that cannot take an order.
When that rail does open, it opens with the same rules described above: the price resolved on our side against your price book, the floor enforced in code, and the school’s share paid to the school. Nothing about that changes because a school is the largest of the 247 counted here or the smallest.
Privacy and permission
Selling a photo of a child is a permission question first
Face matching is not wired in the shipping configuration: it holds no face-recognition model weights, and no face template is computed from a photo. Photo finding uses a permission-checked roster lookup instead. A parent finds their own child by a permission-checked roster lookup, never a face match. A photo of a student can be offered for sale only where every person in it has opted in — one family opting out ends that sale, rather than quietly cropping their child out of it. That holds for every Washington DC school on this program.
This page is a public page, so it carries no roster, no student name, and no child’s photo — and it never will. A lookup on our public surfaces resolves a Washington DC school, never a student inside it.
Face matching is not wired in the shipping configuration: it holds no face-recognition model weights, and no face template is computed from a photo. Photo finding uses a permission-checked roster lookup instead. Parents find their own child by a roster lookup — never a face scan — and a photo is available for sale only when permission says so.
The promise, in one sentenceWhat’s true today
We’re honest about what’s shipped
The book builder, the picture-day pipeline where a photo is sold only when permission allows, the permission gate, the newsroom, ad sales, and the fundraising lane where the platform takes none of a gift are live today for Washington DC schools. The parent store with the split that pays the school, plus a few photo-arm helpers — live text-message offers to crews, route planning, and routing orders to outside labs — are still in early access, and card charging is off platform-wide as described above. We never sell a plan for later as if it shipped.