SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL

SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is a modestly sized four-year high school in BROOKLYN, New York, operated by SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL. The school works with 290 students in grades 6 through 12. Enrollment runs roughly 57% below the state mean of about 668.

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

For racial and ethnic makeup, SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL lists that 70% of the student body identifies as Hispanic. Other groups include 27% Black. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 19% Hispanic, so the school skews considerably more Hispanic than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, Staff filings list 20 full-time-equivalent teachers, which works out to roughly 14.5:1 students per teacher. That figure is higher than the state norm's 11.0:1 average. Roughly 91% of students at SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. 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), SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL sits in the middle band of the BeatsExpectations distribution. Schools with this campus's student mix typically land near 41.6%; this one delivers 39.9%.

Around the school, census data for Kings County shows 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%. SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).

The closest other public school is RED HOOK NEIGHBORHOOD SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL comes 7th of 9 in the immediate cluster, beneath the nearby-schools average of 52.0%.

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

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUMMIT ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL has contracted 16%, going from 344 students in 2018 to 290 in 2025. Hispanic enrollment moved from 47% to 70% across the same window. The student-to-teacher ratio grew from 9.3:1 in 2018 to 14.5:1 today.

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