NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY

NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY, a reasonably sized elementary school in BROOKLYN, New York, part of NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, caters to 588 students, covering grades pre-K through 5. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY sits 33% above that benchmark.

Within NEW YORK CITY GEOGRAPHIC DISTRICT #17, which oversees 49 schools and 16,990 students, NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY is one campus in the system.

In terms of who attends, NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY reports that Black students make up the majority at 62%. Other groups include 30% Hispanic, 3% White, 3% Asian. The wider county runs roughly 28% Black, putting the school's mix meaningfully more Black than the area baseline.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 45 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 13.1:1 students per teacher. That tracks the state average closely. Around 92% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is north of typical.

On a residual basis (actual vs predicted given the student mix), NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY tracks the demographic baseline. The model predicts 41.2% given the school's FRL share; actual proficiency is 33.1%.

In the area at large, community-level numbers for Kings County indicate median household income runs about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSH is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.1 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY comes 6th of 9 in the immediate cluster, below the nearby-schools average of 49.0%.

Geographically, the school is in an inner-city area.

Over the past 7-year window. NORMA ADAMS CLEMONS ACADEMY's enrollment has decreased 11% since 2018, when it stood at 664 (now 588). The Black share of enrollment shrank from 72% to 62% over that span.

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