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Parents: what's one thing you'd want the ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL administration to hear?
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Enrollment
630
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360111206517
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL
800 VAN SICLEN AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11207 · (347) 471-2700 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL630 STUDENTS
B-
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Scored higher than 53% of New York public elementary schools
- C+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B+Beats 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
21.7:1
29 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
93%
584 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 | 54 | 9% |
| Grade 1 | 47 | 7% |
| Grade 2 | 61 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 70 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 78 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 82 | 13% |
| Grade 8 | 70 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (54) is 23% smaller than its 8th grade class (70).
Student demographics
45%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
50.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
58.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +16.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 50 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 58 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 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 17 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 50.0% | 58.0% |
| 2023-24 | 39.0% | 41.3% |
% 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
45.7%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
40.9%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+4.8pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 46% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 41% 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 LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (45.7% proficient) is higher than 1 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 630 | 92.7% | 45.7% |
| BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 591 | 93.9% | 51.2% |
| KIPP ALBANY COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ALBANY | 688 | 88.1% | 23.6% |
| UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE SOUTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 748 | 93.3% | 59.0% |
| PS 109 BROOKLYN | 585 | 88.2% | 46.8% |
| BROOKLYN SCHOLARS CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 728 | 89.1% | 58.8% |
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 LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 45.7% | #1,353 of 2,335 | #192 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 58.0% | #1,138 of 2,342 ▲ 475 | #176 of 290 ▲ 37 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 50.0% | #1,331 of 2,343 ▼ 6 | #213 of 290 ▼ 20 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 630 | #392 of 2,585 | #77 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 21.7:1 | #2,313 of 2,338 | #248 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 45.1% | #1,429 of 2,388 | #184 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 92.7% | #312 of 2,534 | #73 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +36.4% | #59 of 606 | #15 of 49 |
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
630
-107 (-15%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
21.7:1
was 33.5:1
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 | 630 | 29 | 21.7:1 | 93% (584) |
| 2023-24 | 646 | 20 | 32.3:1 | N/A |
| 2022-23 | 756 | 51 | 14.8:1 | N/A |
| 2020-21 | 737 | 22 | 33.5:1 | 76% (563) |
| 2017-18 | 462 | 40 | 11.6:1 | 87% (402) |
| 2015-16 | 249 | 21 | 11.9:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL.
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL
Families in BROOKLYN, New York, are served by ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL, a mid-sized elementary school. It enrolls 630 students in 2024-25. The grades offered are kindergarten through 8. That is 42% bigger than the average of about 443 students for elementary schools in New York.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
Federal enrollment data show ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is 71% Black. Other groups make up 20% Hispanic and 5% Native American. Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school's share is higher. A diversity index of 45% means there is a 45% chance two randomly chosen students at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL are from different groups.
The student-to-teacher ratio at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is 21.7:1, based on 29 full-time-equivalent teachers. The average for elementary schools in New York, 12.8:1, is lower. ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL counts 93% of students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. It compares with 79% for public schools in Kings County.
Among New York public elementary schools, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL outscored 53%, which works out to a B- on the allk12 Grade.
When test results are adjusted for free or reduced-price lunch eligibility, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is 4.8 points above its prediction. Actual: 45.7%. Predicted: 40.9%.
In Kings County, where the school is located, median household income comes to about $80,263, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 42%, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 583 public schools in the county, enrolling about 291,697, ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL among them.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL's closest public school neighbor is VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL, less than a tenth of a mile away. The five-mile area around ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Ranking the closest schools with test data puts ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL at 3rd of 7.
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, a location NCES labels City: Large. ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the charter schools in New York.
A 15% decline took enrollment from 737 in 2020-21 to 630 in 2024-25. In 2020-21, the student-to-teacher ratio was 33.5:1; by 2024-25 it was 21.7:1.
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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
Related schools
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- 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
- VAN SICLEN COMMUNITY MIDDLE SCHOOL0.0 mi · 161
- EAST NEW YORK ARTS AND CIVICS HIGH SCHOOL (THE)0.0 mi · 138
- PS 360.1 mi · 422
- EAST NEW YORK FAMILY ACADEMY0.1 mi · 610
- COLLEGIATE ACADEMY-MATH-PERSONAL AWA0.2 mi · 85
- PS 213 NEW LOTS0.2 mi · 199
Frequently asked questions
About ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 630 students in grades KG-08.
Is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school covering grades KG-08.
How many students per teacher at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
Approximately 21.7:1 students per teacher at ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL.
How diverse is ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 1% White, 20% Hispanic, 71% Black, 1% Asian, 1% Two or more.
Who oversees ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL?
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL is overseen by ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LINDEN CHARTER SCHOOL in Kings County.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.