BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL

BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the medium-sized elementary campuss in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL, with 530 students on its rolls from grades K through 8.

Operationally, BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL answers to BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL lists that Black students make up the majority at 63%. The remainder reads as 32% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

Looking at school resources, Staff filings list 40 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.3:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 88% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.5%, the actual is 45.2%, a residual of +2.7 points.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

PS 309 GEORGE E WIBECAN PREPARATORY ACADEMY (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 4th on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 44.5%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN EXCELSIOR CHARTER SCHOOL has decreased 18%, going from 644 students in 2018 to 530 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 79% to 63% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio tightened from 20.1:1 in 2018 to 13.3:1 today.

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