ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary campus of mid-tier scale in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL, instructing 630 students in grades K through 8. That puts it 42% larger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

In terms of who attends, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL shows that Black students make up the majority at 71%. Beyond that, the school shows 20% Hispanic, 5% Native American. That is meaningfully more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL has 29 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 21.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 93% of students at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL qualify 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.

With demographic context factored in, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.9%, the actual is 45.7%, a residual of +4.8 points.

In the broader community, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL comes 3rd of 7 in the immediate cluster, ahead of the nearby-schools average of 40.7%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 36%: 462 students in 2018 compared to 630 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 80% to 71% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 11.6:1 in 2018 to 21.7:1 in 2025.

Within the allk12 community for this school, posts here usually surface around sports schedules, lunch menu changes, and school spirit week. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.