FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL operates as a moderately sized elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, overseen by FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. Current enrollment sits at 404 students spanning grades K through 6.

Operationally, FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL answers to FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL records that nearly all students (81%) are Black. Beyond that, the school logs 11% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% multiracial. 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 24 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 16.8:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 12.8:1 average. About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. That share is noticeably above Kings County's rate of about 79%.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL performs roughly as the BeatsExpectations model predicts for a school with this FRL share. The predicted value is around 42.8%, the actual is 61.7%, a residual of +19.0 points.

In the area at large, 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 the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL is one.

ACHIEVEMENT FIRST VOYAGER CHARTER SCHOOL is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.2 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL at 2nd of 8; the average score across the group is 43.0%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, FLATBUSH ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

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