BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a well-populated unified-grade school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 951 students spanning grades 2 through 12. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 544 students each, so BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL sits 75% larger than that benchmark.

BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL sits inside BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.

Looking at the student body, BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL logs that nearly all students (87%) are Black. The remainder breaks down as 8% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL lists 62 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 15.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 8.7:1, putting BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

With demographic context factored in, BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.1%, the actual is 52.4%, a residual of +10.3 points.

Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 42.6%.

BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL operates from an inner-city location. As a public charter, BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged down 32%: 1,395 students in 2018 compared to 951 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share shrank from 94% to 87%. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 12.9:1 in 2018 to 15.3:1 today.

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