ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL

As a high-enrollment elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls 899 students from grades K through 8, operated by ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 103% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Operationally, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL answers to ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

For racial and ethnic makeup, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 75% of the student body identifies as Hispanic; the rest looks like 21% Black, 2% White. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.

On the resource side, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL reports 52 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 17.3:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. An estimated 91% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is meaningfully above the surrounding baseline.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.5%; this one delivers 61.0%.

Across the wider county, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL at 3rd of 9; the average score across the group is 49.9%.

The campus sits in a metropolitan setting. ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL has fell 19%, going from 1,113 students in 2018 to 899 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment contracted from 30% to 21% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 17.3:1 today.

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