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Enrollment
899
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360016605902
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL
1300 GREENE AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11237 · (347) 471-2560 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL899 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 80% of New York public elementary schools
- B+Test 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
17.3:1
52 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
91%
818 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 | 89 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 102 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 106 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 6 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 7 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 104 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 3 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (89) is 14% smaller than its 8th grade class (104).
Student demographics
40%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
60.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +3.0pp since 2023
Math
68.5%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.1pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 60 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 68 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 3 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 60.0% | 68.5% |
| 2023-24 | 57.0% | 68.4% |
% 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
61.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
41.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.5pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 61% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 42% 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-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (61.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 899 | 91.0% | 61.0% |
| FAMILY LIFE ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL II BRONX | 858 | 92.8% | 50.5% |
| PS 95 SHEILA MENCHER BRONX | 851 | 94.1% | 35.3% |
| PS 214 BRONX | 814 | 96.4% | 35.0% |
| VOICE CHARTER SCHOOL OF NEW YORK LONG ISLAND CITY | 849 | 92.2% | 52.5% |
| NEW WORLD PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL STATEN ISLAND | 803 | 93.3% | 51.3% |
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-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 61.0% | #714 of 2,335 | #109 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 68.5% | #758 of 2,342 ▼ 151 | #130 of 290 ▼ 45 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 60.0% | #936 of 2,343 ▼ 329 | #169 of 290 ▼ 73 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 899 | #80 of 2,585 | #23 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.3:1 | #2,236 of 2,338 | #236 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 39.5% | #1,619 of 2,388 | #206 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 91.0% | #368 of 2,534 | #94 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -19.2% | #653 of 1,757 | #137 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
899
-44 (-5%) vs 2020
+19% since 2010-11, when it was 754
Student : Teacher
17.3:1
was 24.8:1
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 | 899 | 52 | 17.3:1 | 91% (818) |
| 2023-24 | 920 | 56 | 16.4:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 938 | 94 | 10.0:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 943 | 38 | 24.8:1 | 80% (759) |
| 2017-18 | 1,113 | 80.9 | 13.8:1 | 84% (933) |
| 2015-16 | 1,066 | 75 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
| 2010-11 | 754 | 49 | 15.4:1 | 85% (644) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL.
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is classified as an elementary school. It is located in BROOKLYN, New York. A federal count lists 899 students at the school, in kindergarten through 8. An average school in this group (elementary schools in New York) has about 443 students.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Hispanic students make up a majority at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL, at 75%. Other students are 21% Black and 2% White. That is higher than the 19% Hispanic share among all Kings County residents. The school's diversity index is 40%, meaning two students picked at random have a 40% chance of belonging to different racial or ethnic groups.
Teachers at the school number 52 full-time equivalents, and the ratio is 17.3:1. On average, elementary schools in New York have 12.8:1, compared with 17.3:1 here. The school's lunch program data list 91% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price meals. Public schools in Kings County average 79%.
The allk12 Grade for ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is A-. Compared with New York public elementary schools, the school scored higher than 80% on a mix of test scores, poverty-adjusted results, and recent trend.
On BeatsExpectations, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is 19.5 points above its prediction, a result in the middle 80% of New York schools.
Kings County has these Census figures: the median household income is $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. In all, Kings County has 583 public schools and roughly 291,697 students.
JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER is the public school closest to ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 other public schools within five miles. Nearby schools average 49.9% on proficiency, and ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is above that at 61.0%.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL falls in the City: Large locale category, used for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. As a charter school, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
Compared with 2020-21, the school had 44 fewer students in 2024-25. By 2024-25, the school had 17.3 students per teacher, compared with 24.8 in 2020-21.
Discussion on this page can cover school events, clubs, and volunteer needs. Posting is open to anyone connected to the school.
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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Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
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- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- JHS 383 PHILIPPA SCHUYLER0.0 mi · 651
- PS 3760.1 mi · 466
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BUSHWICK0.1 mi · 558
- PS 116 ELIZABETH L FARRELL0.1 mi · 296
- PS 86 IRVINGTON (THE)0.2 mi · 347
- JHS 291 ROLAND HAYES0.3 mi · 294
Frequently asked questions
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 899 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL?
Approximately 17.3:1 students per teacher at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL.
What is the student diversity at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL are roughly 2% White, 75% Hispanic, 21% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL is overseen by ACHIEVEMENT FIRST-BUSHWICK CHARTER SCHOOL in Kings County.
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