EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL

EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL, an average-sized primary school in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL, works with 624 students, covering grades K through 8. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL sits 41% larger than that benchmark.

EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.

Demographically, EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL logs that 87% of students identify as Black, making the school strongly Black-majority. The remainder breaks down as 7% Hispanic. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, Staff filings list 50 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 12.5:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Roughly 79% of students at EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 45.9% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 55.8%.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Kings County) logs 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%. EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is PS 114 RYDER ELEMENTARY, roughly 0.0 miles away. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL. Among the 9 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, above the local average of 49.2%.

EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL operates from an urban location. EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Over the past 7-year window. EXPLORE EXCEL CHARTER SCHOOL's enrollment has rose 15% since 2018, when it stood at 541 (now 624). The Black share of enrollment ticked down from 92% to 87% over that span. The student-to-teacher ratio loosened from 10.4:1 in 2018 to 12.5:1 today.

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