CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

As a roomy K-5 school in BROOKLYN, New York, CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls 753 students from grades K through 8, overseen by CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. That puts it 70% bigger than the typical public school in New York, which averages around 443 students.

CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL records that 83% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. Beyond that, the school records 11% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews noticeably more Black than its surroundings.

In terms of school funding signals, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 90% of students at CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is somewhat above the surrounding baseline.

After controlling for student poverty, CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 42.0%; actual is 72.2%, +30.2 points clear of the demographic baseline.

Around the school, Kings County reports that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.

The closest other public school is PS 361 EAST FLATBUSH EARLY CHILDHOOD SCHOOL, roughly 0.1 miles away. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.4%.

Geographically, the school is in a city-core area. As a public charter, CENTRAL BROOKLYN 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 ticked up 80%: 419 students in 2018 compared to 753 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 83% across the same window. Class-load math has loosened: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 16.8:1 in 2025.

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