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KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)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.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL
As a well-populated elementary campus in BROOKLYN, New York, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL instructs 891 students from grades K through 8, one of the schools within KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL sits 101% above that benchmark.
KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is a school of KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
For racial and ethnic makeup, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL records that nearly all students (81%) are Black. Beyond that, the school lists 10% Hispanic, 4% Native American, 2% multiracial. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix considerably more Black than the area baseline.
Looking at school resources, On paper, KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL has 43 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 20.7:1. Statewide, the average ratio sits near 12.8:1, putting KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL higher than the state norm the norm. Roughly 89% of students at KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. By comparison, Kings County runs at roughly 79%, so the school's eligibility rate is higher than the surrounding baseline.
On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 42.2%; this one delivers 66.2%, a residual of +24.0 points.
Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that median household income runs about $80,263, roughly 42% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. Across Kings County's 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL is one campus in the mix.
The closest other public school is SCHOOL OF INTEGRATED LEARNING (THE), roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED CHARTER SCHOOL at 2nd of 9; the average score across the group is 48.3%.
The campus sits in an inner-city setting. KIPP ALWAYS MENTALLY PREPARED 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. Over the past 7-year window, the student count held roughly steady: 903 students in 2018 compared to 891 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 86% to 81%. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 11.0:1 in 2018 to 20.7:1 today.
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