BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 71 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 89 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are down about 6 points since 2023, while math scores are down about 3 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 78% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 26 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15
BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 is a rural-scale middle school in BROOKLYN, New York, run under BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15. The school works with 20 students in grade 5. Compared to the state average of about 531 students per school, that is 96% leaner than typical.
BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 is the operating authority for BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
On the student-mix side, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 reports that 60% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Beyond that, the school reports 30% Black, 10% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix considerably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 records 6 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 3.3:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 10.3:1, putting BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 tighter than the state norm the norm. About 60% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably below Kings County's rate of about 79%.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 52.9%; BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 posts 78.4%, +25.5 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate 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. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is PS 371 LILLIAN L RASHKIS, roughly 0.1 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 6 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 37.9%.
The school occupies a downtown site. BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Looking at the recent track record. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at BROOKLYN PROSPECT CHARTER SCHOOL-CSD 15 has decreased 97%, going from 742 students in 2018 to 20 in 2025. Over the same period, the White share contracted from 39% to 0%. The student-to-teacher ratio narrowed from 10.6:1 in 2018 to 3.3:1 today.
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