Adult and Continuing Education

No state test scores were reported for this school's PK-8 program, so it's hard to say how students here perform on ELA or math compared to the district averages of 53% ELA proficiency and 46% math proficiency. That data gap matters — when a school doesn't have reportable scores, it usually means either the cohort is too small to measure reliably or the program isn't fully standardized. Families who care about academic benchmarking should ask the school directly about recent outcomes.

The clearest signal here is what isn't happening: zero suspensions recorded. In a district where the average suspension rate hovers near 1.4%, that's notably low and suggests either a very small student population or a genuinely calm environment. Without teacher or parent survey data to draw on, the day-to-day culture is hard to characterize — families should plan a visit to get a feel for the classroom climate and how staff interact with students.

Because this site doubles as an adult education hub, the people walking through the doors include a mix of adult learners and young children, which gives the building a distinctly different feel from a typical elementary school. School-level demographic data isn't reported in a way that lets us draw firm conclusions, but the surrounding Bedford-Stuyvesant population is a working-class, renter-majority community where about 16% of households include children — a relatively small share of family households by city standards.

Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) is a predominantly renter neighborhood where the median household income is around $77,685 and roughly 28% of residents live below the poverty line — higher than the citywide rate. Just under half of adult residents hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and homeownership is low at about 20%, reflecting the area's deep stock of brownstones and multifamily buildings. The community has a strong identity and a long history of civic engagement, which tends to show up in local school culture.

The campus is very accessible by transit — the Nostrand Avenue A and C trains are about a three-minute walk away, and the Franklin Avenue shuttle (S) and C train stops are roughly eight to nine minutes on foot.