CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

As a sprawling elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL instructs 857 students from grades K through 8, overseen by CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 93% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is the operating authority for CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.

On the student-mix side, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL shows that 89% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder reads as 6% Hispanic. That is considerably more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, The school employs 48 full-time-equivalent teachers, for a student-teacher ratio near 17.7:1. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 80% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 45.6%; this one delivers 64.6%.

Zooming out to the county, census data for Kings County shows median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

LENOX ACADEMY is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. On composite proficiency, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL comes 2nd of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 54.6%.

CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL operates from a city-core location. As a public charter, CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Five-year trend. Over the past 7-year window, the student count edged up 26%: 680 students in 2018 compared to 857 in 2025. The student-to-teacher ratio widened from 14.2:1 in 2018 to 17.7:1 today.

In the discussion threads here, recent activity here tends to focus on fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Contributors range from current parents to recent graduates and teachers.