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What's the one class at KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL every student should take?
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Enrollment
891
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL·NCES 360014805822
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL
1224 PARK PL-4TH FL, BROOKLYN, NY 11213 · (718) 943-3710 · Kings County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL891 STUDENTS
A
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Scored higher than 86% of New York public elementary schools
- A-Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- ABeats 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 elementary schools
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
43 FTE teachers
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
89%
794 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 73 | 8% |
| Grade 1 | 92 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 88 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 99 | 11% |
| Grade 5 | 118 | 13% |
| Grade 6 | 110 | 12% |
| Grade 7 | 102 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 107 | 12% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (73) is 32% smaller than its 8th grade class (107).
Student demographics
32%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
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
74.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +19.0pp since 2023
Math
78.2%
NY avg 57.4% . +8.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 74 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 78 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 9 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 74.0% | 78.2% |
| 2023-24 | 55.0% | 69.5% |
% 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
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
66.2%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
42.2%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+24.0pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 66% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 42% 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 24 points, placing it in New York's top 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 KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL's state test result (66.2% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL this school | 891 | 89.1% | 66.2% |
| CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 753 | 89.8% | 72.2% |
| KIPP TECH VALLEY CHARTER SCHOOL ALBANY | 840 | 85.8% | 34.4% |
| REACH ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL BUFFALO | 805 | 95.0% | 24.9% |
| UNCOMMON BROWNSVILLE SOUTH CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 748 | 93.3% | 59.0% |
| ROCHESTER PREP CHARTER SCHOOL 2 ROCHESTER | 827 | 84.3% | 43.7% |
Matched among New York elementary 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 KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 66.2% | #515 of 2,335 | #80 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 78.2% | #395 of 2,342 ▲ 184 | #65 of 290 ▲ 16 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 74.0% | #400 of 2,343 ▲ 272 | #76 of 290 ▲ 30 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 891 | #83 of 2,585 | #25 of 306 |
| Students per teacher ranked fewest first | 20.7:1 | #2,303 of 2,338 | #246 of 249 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 32.4% | #1,825 of 2,388 | #225 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 89.1% | #456 of 2,534 | #129 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -1.3% | #1,700 of 1,757 | #222 of 225 |
Ranked against other public elementary 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
891
+65 (+8%) vs 2020
+161% since 2010-11, when it was 342
Student : Teacher
20.7:1
was 15.6:1
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 | 891 | 43 | 20.7:1 | 89% (794) |
| 2023-24 | 895 | 54.6 | 16.4:1 | 89% (794) |
| 2022-23 | 871 | 64.6 | 13.5:1 | 90% (782) |
| 2020-21 | 826 | 53 | 15.6:1 | 54% (446) |
| 2017-18 | 903 | 82 | 11.0:1 | 84% (755) |
| 2015-16 | 786 | 62 | 12.7:1 | 0% (0) |
| 2010-11 | 342 | 27 | 12.7:1 | 81% (276) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL.
About KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL
In BROOKLYN, New York, part of Kings County, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is an elementary school. Total enrollment is 891 students, and the grades served are kindergarten through 8. By comparison, elementary schools in New York enroll about 443 students on average.
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
By race and ethnicity, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is 81% Black. The next largest groups are 10% Hispanic, 4% Native American, and 2% multiracial. The school's Black share is 54 points above the 28% share among Kings County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 32%.
The school had 43 full-time-equivalent teachers in 2024-25. Its student-to-teacher ratio is 20.7:1. Across elementary schools in New York, the average ratio is 12.8:1. The eligibility rate for free or reduced-price meals is 89%. The average for public schools in Kings County is 79%.
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL earns an A on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 86% of New York public elementary schools.
Predicted from its free or reduced-price lunch share, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL would score about 42.2%. It scores 66.2%, a top-10% result among New York schools on BeatsExpectations.
Kings County is the school's county. There, the median household earns about $80,263 a year, roughly 42% of adults have a four-year degree or more, and the share of residents below the poverty line is 15%. KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL shares Kings County with 582 other public schools.
SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE) is less than a tenth of a mile from KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL, the shortest distance to any other public school. The five-mile area around KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL holds at least 8 other public schools. Nearby schools with test data average 45.2% proficiency; KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL posts 66.2%.
Locale data from NCES put KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more (City: Large). Federal records list KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL as a charter school.
An 8% rise took enrollment from 826 in 2020-21 to 891 in 2024-25. The student-to-teacher ratio increased from 15.6:1 in 2020-21 to 20.7:1 in 2024-25.
On allk12, people connected to KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL can post about pickup and drop-off, after-school programs, and teacher feedback. Current and former families are welcome to add their experience.
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
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- PS 243 WEEKSVILLE SCHOOL (THE)0.3 mi · 199
- PATHWAYS IN TECHNOLOGY EARLY COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL (P-TECH)0.3 mi · 534
- ACADEMY FOR HEALTH CAREERS0.3 mi · 159
Frequently asked questions
About KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOLHow large is KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL?
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL enrolls approximately 891 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL serve?
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How many teachers does KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL have?
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL employs 43 FTE teachers, for a student-to-teacher ratio of 20.7:1.
How diverse is KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL?
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL reports a student body of 2% White, 10% Hispanic, 81% Black, 1% Asian, 2% Two or more.
Is KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL public or private?
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is a public K-12 school operated as a charter, overseen by KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.