BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13

BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 operates as a high-enrollment K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13. Current enrollment sits at 797 students spanning grades K through 8. That puts it 80% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

Operationally, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 answers to BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 logs that the most-represented group is White (35%), with the rest of the student body spread across multiple groups. Beyond that, the school records 32% Black, 15% Hispanic, 12% multiracial, 6% Asian. That mix tracks the wider county fairly closely.

On the resource side, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 reports 67 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 12.0:1. That figure is tighter than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. An estimated 37% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 61.3%, the actual is 80.6%, a residual of +19.3 points.

Across the wider county, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is ALBEE SQUARE MONTESSORI PUBLIC SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13. Among the 7 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 ranks 1st on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 46.6%.

The school occupies a downtown site. BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 13 operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count expanded 56%: 510 students in 2018 compared to 797 in 2025.

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