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What's the one class at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
857
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360110206414
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL
9719 FLATLANDS AVE, BROOKLYN, NY 11236 · (718) 907-0153 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL857 STUDENTS
A-
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Scored higher than 83% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
48 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
80%
685 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 92 | 11% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 12% |
| Grade 2 | 111 | 13% |
| Grade 3 | 103 | 12% |
| Grade 4 | 104 | 12% |
| Grade 5 | 74 | 9% |
| Grade 6 | 85 | 10% |
| Grade 7 | 93 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 89 | 10% |
This year's kindergarten class (92) is about the same size as its 8th grade class (89).
Student demographics
21%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
75.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +11.0pp since 2023
Math
69.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +12.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 75 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 69 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 11 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 12 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 75.0% | 69.0% |
| 2023-24 | 64.0% | 57.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
AS EXPECTED
Performing as predicted given the school's student profile
Actual proficiency
64.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.6%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+19.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 65% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 46% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations measures results against demographically similar schools rather than by raw scores, and this school falls within the typical range, neither among New York's top nor bottom 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (64.6% proficient) is higher than 3 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 857 | 79.9% | 64.6% |
| UNCOMMON CANARSIE CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 808 | 82.3% | 62.7% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS BROOKLYN | 786 | 79.4% | 93.4% |
| RIVERTON STREET CHARTER SCHOOL SAINT ALBANS | 1,003 | 78.1% | 66.9% |
| PS 235 JANICE MARIE KNIGHT SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 666 | 81.2% | 55.8% |
| EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 624 | 79.0% | 55.8% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 64.6% | #573 of 2,335 | #91 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 69.0% | #736 of 2,342 ▲ 289 | #128 of 290 ▲ 17 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 75.0% | #372 of 2,343 ▲ 26 | #74 of 290 ▼ 13 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 857 | #99 of 2,585 | #30 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 17.7:1 | #2,249 of 2,338 | #239 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 20.6% | #2,092 of 2,388 | #254 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 79.9% | #771 of 2,534 | #205 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +26.0% | #95 of 606 | #21 of 49 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
857
-268 (-24%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
17.7:1
was 17.3:1
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 857 | 48.4 | 17.7:1 | 80% (685) |
| 2023-24 | 936 | 45.2 | 20.7:1 | 81% (758) |
| 2022-23 | 989 | 65 | 15.2:1 | 75% (739) |
| 2020-21 | 1,125 | 65 | 17.3:1 | N/A |
| 2017-18 | 680 | 48 | 14.2:1 | 72% (492) |
| 2015-16 | 407 | 28 | 14.5:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL.
About CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is a large elementary school for students in BROOKLYN, New York. Federal data show 857 students enrolled in kindergarten through 8 in 2024-25. Across elementary schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 443.
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is its own local education agency in federal data.
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is 89% Black by enrollment. The rest of enrollment is 6% Hispanic. Census estimates put the Black share of Kings County's population at about 28%. The diversity index for CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is 21%. For US public schools as a whole it is 70%.
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL has a student-to-teacher ratio of 17.7:1, with 48.4 full-time-equivalent teachers. Statewide, elementary schools in New York average 12.8:1. The school has 80% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Kings County is close, at 79%.
Among New York public elementary schools, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL outscored 83%, which works out to an A- on the allk12 Grade.
Test results at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL are 19.0 points above what its free or reduced-price lunch share predicts (64.6% actual, 45.6% predicted).
Census data for Kings County show the median household earns about $80,263 a year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. Counting CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, Kings County has 583 public schools.
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL's nearest public school is LENOX ACADEMY (about 0.1 miles). There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL places 2nd of 9 on proficiency among the closest schools that report scores.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large. CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
The school shrank from 1,125 students in 2020-21 to 857 in 2024-25.
The discussion board for CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is open to topics like athletics, class schedules, and weather closures. Parents, students, alumni, and staff are welcome to post.
Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROOKLYN
- BROOKLYN TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 5,848 students
- FORT HAMILTON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 4,044 students
- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- LENOX ACADEMY0.1 mi · 264
- OLYMPUS ACADEMY0.1 mi · 181
- IS 211 JOHN WILSON0.3 mi · 188
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR MEDICAL PROFESSIONS0.3 mi · 381
- HIGH SCHOOL FOR INNOVATION IN ADVERTISING AND MEDIA0.3 mi · 386
- URBAN ACTION ACADEMY0.3 mi · 178
Frequently asked questions
About CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOLWhat is the total enrollment at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL?
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 857 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL serves grades KG-08.
What is the student-teacher ratio at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL?
The student-to-teacher ratio at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is approximately 17.7:1 (48 FTE teachers).
What is the student diversity at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL?
Student demographics at CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL are roughly 1% White, 6% Hispanic, 89% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL.
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