EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS)
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 77 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 85 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 23 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 20 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 70% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 29 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
About EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS)
As a tiny elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) works with 152 students from grades K through 4, overseen by EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS). By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) sits 66% below that benchmark.
EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) is a school of EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS), the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
In terms of who attends, EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) logs that Hispanic students make up the majority at 56%. Other groups include 39% Black. The wider county runs roughly 19% Hispanic, putting the school's mix noticeably more Hispanic than the area baseline.
In terms of school funding signals, EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) records 8 full-time-equivalent teachers, putting the student-to-teacher ratio at about 19.0:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) higher than the state norm the norm. Around 93% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, often used as a Title I proxy. That share is north of Kings County's rate of about 79%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) 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 40.6%; EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) posts 69.5%, +28.9 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Kings County) shows that the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) is one.
Nearest neighbor: ACHIEVEMENT FIRST APOLLO CHARTER SCHOOL, around 0.1 miles off. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS). Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 46.9%.
EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) operates from a metropolitan location. As a public charter, EAST BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (EBACS) runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.
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