BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the very small secondary schools in BROOKLYN, New York, run under BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, with 219 students on its rolls from grades 9 through 12. That puts it 67% leaner than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 668 students.

BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Looking at the student body, BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL logs that the largest single group is Black, at 80% of enrollment. Beyond that, the school lists 17% Hispanic. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, On paper, BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 9.1:1. The state averages around 11.0:1, so this campus is tighter than the state norm typical. Roughly 81% of students at BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

After controlling for student poverty, BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.3% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 28.2%.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

The closest other public school is BROOKLYN ACADEMY OF GLOBAL FINANCE (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 37.6%.

The campus sits in a city-core setting. As a public charter, BROOKLYN EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY 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 EMERGING LEADERS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has ticked up 248%, going from 63 students in 2018 to 219 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 6.3:1 in 2018 to 9.1:1 today.

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