BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS

Set in ALBANY, New York, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS is a low-enrollment elementary school, one of the schools within BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS. It works with 240 students across grades K through 5. Compared to the state average of about 443 students per school, that is 46% leaner than typical.

Operationally, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS answers to BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS logs that Black students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 20% Hispanic, 10% multiracial, 10% White, 5% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 12% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

In terms of school funding signals, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS reports 22 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 10.9:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Albany County (around 45%), the school's rate is north of typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 41.6%, the actual is 51.9%, a residual of +10.3 points.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Albany County) reports that median household earnings sit near $85,333, about 46% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 8%. In all, Albany County runs 75 public schools (combined enrollment of about 39,946 students), of which BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS is one.

BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS ranks 2nd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 36.0%.

The campus sits in a downtown setting. As a public charter, BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Looking at the recent track record. BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR BOYS's enrollment has shrank 25% since 2018, when it stood at 319 (now 240). The Black share of enrollment declined from 73% to 56% over that span. Class-load math has narrowed: from 12.8:1 in 2018 to 10.9:1 in 2025.

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