UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC

As a substantial unified-grade school in BROOKLYN, New York, UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC teaches 1,165 students from grades K through 12, run under UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC. That puts it 114% above the typical public school in New York, which averages around 544 students.

Operationally, UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC answers to UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

On the student-mix side, UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC records that 76% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school records 17% Hispanic, 2% Asian, 2% Native American. That is visibly more Black than the county at large, where the share is closer to 28%.

Looking at school resources, On paper, UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC has 106 full-time-equivalent teachers, translating to a class-load average of around 11.0:1. The state averages around 8.7:1, so this campus is higher than the state norm typical. Roughly 86% of students at UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 43.3%; this one delivers 52.6%.

Around the school, the surrounding county (Kings County) records that median household earnings sit near $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC is one.

Nearest neighbor: PS 140, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC ranks 3rd on composite proficiency, ahead of the local average of 42.1%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area. UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.

Five-year trend. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at UNCOMMON BED-STUY WEST CHARTER SCHOOL NYC has edged up 4%, going from 1,119 students in 2018 to 1,165 in 2025. Over the same period, the Black share contracted from 82% to 76%. Class-load math has pulled in: from 15.0:1 in 2018 to 11.0:1 in 2025.

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