BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is a reasonably sized elementary school, part of BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL. It educates 489 students across grades K through 8.

BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On demographics, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL logs that Black students make up the majority at 60%; the rest looks like 21% Hispanic, 11% Asian, 6% White. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, On paper, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL has 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 12.2:1. That tracks the state average closely. About 78% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 46.3%, the actual is 50.4%, a residual of +4.1 points.

In the area at large, the surrounding county (Kings County) reports that median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

Nearest neighbor: PS 134, around 0.2 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL at 8th of 9; the average score across the group is 57.3%.

The campus sits in an urban setting. As a public charter, BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL has decreased 26%, going from 663 students in 2018 to 489 in 2025. The Asian share of enrollment fell from 16% to 11% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 15.4:1 in 2018 to 12.2:1 today.

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