Achievement First Voyager Charter School

Voyager's reading scores are a genuine bright spot: at 59.8% proficiency, the school sits roughly 14 percentage points above the District 32 average of about 46%, and the climb from 21% in 2017 represents one of the steeper improvements in the borough. Math tells the opposite story — proficiency fell to 23% in 2025, down from nearly 60% the year before, and well below the district's 43.2% average. Science proficiency (45.1%) is roughly on par with peers. The picture is a school strong in one core subject and suddenly shaky in another, which suggests families should ask hard questions about what changed in the math program.

Voyager's overall attendance rate of 90.3% is just below the district average, but the chronic absenteeism figure of 64.4% is striking — nearly two-thirds of students miss enough school to be flagged, with female students (73.1%) missing considerably more than male students (55.8%). The family survey data is too thin to interpret meaningfully, with only three responses returned. There is no suspension or discipline data provided, so day-to-day culture is harder to read from the numbers alone.

The student body is 89% Black, 9% Hispanic, and 1% across several other groups — a notably homogeneous population reflected in a low diversity index of 24%. Economic need is high, with an index of 69.7, meaning most students come from households under significant financial pressure. About 18% of students have IEPs, a meaningful share that signals real inclusion but also real demand on special education staff. The surrounding neighborhood skews somewhat more mixed than the school itself, with a 41.8% college-educated adult share and a $73,345 median household income that doesn't fully mirror the student body's economic profile.

Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate is a transit-accessible slice of central Brooklyn where most residents rent rather than own — homeownership sits at just 22.5% — even though the median home value is nearly $950,000. Households with children make up under 10% of the area, which means the immediate residential population skews older or smaller-family than the city average, though plenty of families with school-age kids pass through on the 2 and 5 trains. The neighborhood has a notably educated adult population and a poverty rate near 16%.

Winthrop St (2 and 5) is about a 4-minute walk, with Church Av (2 and 5) around 9 minutes and Sterling St (2 and 5) about 10 minutes away.