Enrollment
196
Middle
STATE 531
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360118606645
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
77 SANDS ST, BROOKLYN, NY 11201 · (347) 429-8439 · Kings County
GRADES 06–08MIDDLE11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL196 STUDENTS
C+
allk12 Grade
Scored higher than 36% of New York public middle schools
- CTest scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- B-Beats 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 middle schools
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
21 FTE teachers
STATE 10.3:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
81%
159 students
STATE 58%
Community
0
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other middle schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Grade 6 | 51 | 26% |
| Grade 7 | 63 | 32% |
| Grade 8 | 82 | 42% |
Student demographics
42%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
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
55.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +9.0pp since 2023
Math
52.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +25.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 55 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 52 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 9 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 26 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 55.0% | 52.0% |
| 2023-24 | 46.0% | 26.3% |
% 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
43.8%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
45.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
-1.4pp
below demographic expectation
What this means: About 44% of students here test proficient in math and reading, compared with the roughly 45% 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 EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (43.8% proficient) is higher than 2 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 196 | 81.1% | 43.8% |
| LAMAD ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 165 | 80.0% | 48.2% |
| BROOKLYN GREEN SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 214 | 77.6% | 51.9% |
| URBAN ASSEMBLY UNISON SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 172 | 85.5% | 38.3% |
| IS 211 JOHN WILSON BROOKLYN | 188 | 84.0% | 55.3% |
| NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 226 | 88.1% | 38.0% |
Matched among New York middle 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 EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among middle schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 43.8% | #556 of 766 | #60 of 91 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 52.0% | #470 of 768 ▲ 237 | #45 of 91 ▲ 35 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 55.0% | #263 of 768 ▲ 69 | #43 of 91 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 196 | #689 of 796 | #69 of 102 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 81.1% | #220 of 773 | #64 of 92 |
Ranked against other public middle 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
196
-102 (-34%) vs 2020
Student : Teacher
9.3:1
was 14.2:1
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 | 196 | 21 | 9.3:1 | 81% (159) |
| 2023-24 | 188 | 17 | 11.1:1 | 85% (160) |
| 2022-23 | 269 | 24.6 | 10.9:1 | 83% (222) |
| 2020-21 | 298 | 21 | 14.2:1 | N/A |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
About EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a public middle school run by EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL in BROOKLYN, New York. It has an enrollment of 196 students in grades 6 through 8. Across middle schools in New York, the average enrollment is about 531.
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL operates as its own local education agency.
The largest group at EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is Black students, at 72%. Other groups include 23% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County residents are about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL scores 42%.
There are about 9.3 students for every full-time-equivalent teacher at EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, which has 21. By comparison, the average for middle schools in New York is 10.3:1. Free or reduced-price lunch eligibility at EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is about 81%. The figure for public schools in Kings County is close, at 79%.
Among New York public middle schools, EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL outscored 36%, which works out to a C+ on the allk12 Grade.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is -1.4 points: 43.8% actual, 45.2% predicted.
The county, Kings County, is where the school is located. Median household income comes to about $80,263, about 42% of adults have at least a bachelor's degree, and roughly 15% of residents are in poverty. The county has 583 public schools and about 291,697 students.
BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL sits less than a tenth of a mile from EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Among the 9 closest schools with test data, this one included, EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 6th on average proficiency.
The school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more, according to its NCES locale (City: Large). EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL holds a charter, making it a public charter school.
Federal enrollment counts decreased from 298 (2020-21) to 196 (2024-25). Students per teacher dropped from 14.2 in 2020-21 to 9.3 in 2024-25.
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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
- BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL0.0 mi · 628
- URBAN ASSEMBLY SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART0.3 mi · 142
- BROOKLYN INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 290
- SCIENCE SKILLS CENTER HIGH SCHOOL0.3 mi · 453
- EMILY WARREN ROEBLING SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 594
- DOCK STREET SCHOOL FOR STEAM STUDIES0.3 mi · 220
Frequently asked questions
About EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOLHow many students attend EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 196 students in grades 06-08.
Is EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL an elementary, middle, or high school?
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a middle school covering grades 06-08.
How many teachers does EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL have?
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL employs 21 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 9.3:1.
What is the racial breakdown of students at EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL?
At EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL, the student body is approximately 2% White, 23% Hispanic, 72% Black, 1% Two or more.
Is EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by EDMUND W GORDON BROOKLYN LABORATORY CHARTER SCHOOL.
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