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Enrollment
758
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360102806237
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL
350 LINWOOD ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11208 · (347) 471-2620 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL758 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 75% of New York public elementary schools
- BTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
45 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
88%
664 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 84 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 89 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 86 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 94 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 89 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 61 | 8% |
| Grade 6 | 81 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 72 | 9% |
| Grade 8 | 101 | 13% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (84) is 17% smaller than its 8th grade class (101).
Student demographics
60%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
97.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +31.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 97 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 31 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 97.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 65.9% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
58.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.8%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+15.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 58% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 43% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (58.3% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 758 | 87.6% | 58.3% |
| KIPP STAR COLLEGE PREP CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 748 | 86.9% | 68.6% |
| GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL II JAMAICA | 810 | 80.6% | 45.0% |
| PS 249 CATON (THE) BROOKLYN | 663 | 83.9% | 76.6% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 4 BRONX | 590 | 83.2% | 95.5% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 3 NEW YORK | 629 | 83.3% | 89.3% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 58.3% | #824 of 2,335 | #128 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 97.0% | #41 of 2,342 ▲ 668 | #10 of 290 ▲ 88 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #1,133 of 2,343 ▼ 100 | #192 of 290 ▼ 31 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 758 | #192 of 2,585 | #44 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 16.8:1 | #2,225 of 2,338 | #233 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 59.7% | #718 of 2,388 | #96 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 87.6% | #515 of 2,534 | #150 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -10.7% | #1,105 of 1,757 | #186 of 225 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
758
-161 (-18%) vs 2020
+336% since 2010-11, when it was 174
Student : Teacher
16.8:1
was 31.7:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 758 | 45 | 16.8:1 | 88% (664) |
| 2023-24 | 871 | 44 | 19.8:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 912 | 66 | 13.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 919 | 29 | 31.7:1 | 81% (742) |
| 2017-18 | 849 | 73 | 11.6:1 | 94% (800) |
| 2015-16 | 679 | 55 | 12.3:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 174 | 14 | 12.4:1 | 84% (147) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL.
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL
Federal records list ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL as an elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York. The school has 758 students in 2024-25 across kindergarten through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
Black students make up 48% of enrollment at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL, the largest share of any group. Other reported shares: 40% Hispanic and 8% Asian. That compares with about 28% Black among all Kings County residents. A diversity index of 60% means there is a 60% chance two randomly chosen students at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL are from different groups.
The school's 45 full-time-equivalent teachers translate to a student-to-teacher ratio of 16.8:1. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. Income data for the school show 88% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
On the allk12 Grade, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL lands at A-, ahead of 75% of New York public elementary schools.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL's average proficiency rate across its state test results of 58.3% is 15.5 points above the 42.8% the model predicts from its lunch-eligibility share.
For the population of Kings County, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Kings County's 583 public schools enroll about 291,697 students and include ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL.
LIBERTY AVENUE MIDDLE SCHOOL is less than a tenth of a mile from ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 47.0%, lower than ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL's 58.3%.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL has an NCES locale of City: Large. NCES lists ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL as a charter school.
Enrollment was 758 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, it was 919. Its ratio of students to teachers was 31.7:1 in 2020-21, and 16.8:1 in 2024-25.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOLHow large is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 758 students in grades KG-08.
Is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL is approximately 16.8:1 (45 FTE teachers).
What is the racial breakdown of students at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL?
At ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 1% White, 40% Hispanic, 48% Black, 8% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL.
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