BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one of the moderately sized K-5 schools in BROOKLYN, New York, part of BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, with 591 students on its rolls from grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 33% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

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

Demographically, BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 78% of the student body identifies as Black; the rest consists of 16% Hispanic. That is noticeably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

On the resource side, BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL shows 33 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 18.1:1. The state averages around 12.8:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Around 94% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is noticeably above typical.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 40.5%, the actual is 51.2%, a residual of +10.7 points.

In the area at large, ACS estimates for Kings County put the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

Nearest neighbor: BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.0 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL comes 4th of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 42.8%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, BROWNSVILLE ASCEND 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 BROWNSVILLE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL has fell 43%, going from 1,035 students in 2018 to 591 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 86% to 78% across the same window. Class-load math has grew: from 13.8:1 in 2018 to 18.1:1 in 2025.

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