W.E.B Dubois (ALC)

As an Alternative Learning Center, this school operates on a model where standardized proficiency rates aren't the primary yardstick — and the figures available don't include ELA or math scores for this campus. What we can see is a class size of 22, identical to the District 17 average, meaning the daily grouping is on par with other middle and high schools in the area. Without year-over-year proficiency or trend data in the figures provided, academic trajectory can't be characterized.

Standard climate signals — attendance rate, parent satisfaction, teacher trust, and suspension rate — aren't part of the figures available for this campus, so day-to-day feel is hard to characterize from data alone. ALCs are typically structured around smaller, more flexible settings designed for students whose needs aren't met by a traditional comprehensive school, and that structural purpose is more informative here than any single survey number. Families considering this campus should ask the school directly about attendance patterns and how it handles discipline, since those specifics won't show up in standard comparisons.

This campus serves families in Crown Heights (South), a neighborhood where the median household income sits around $70,304 and the poverty rate is 20.3%. About 13.9% of households in the area include children, so families are a meaningful but minority share of the population. The surrounding community is heavily renter — only 14.5% own their homes — and 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, suggesting a working- and middle-class mixed demographic. Without student-body demographic figures reported for this campus, the in-school composition isn't fully visible from the data, but it draws from a diverse central Brooklyn population.

Crown Heights (South) is a dense residential pocket of central Brooklyn where median household income is about $70,304 and roughly a third of adults hold a bachelor's degree. The area is overwhelmingly renter — homeownership sits at just 14.5% — while the median home value of $1.18 million reflects the broader Brooklyn market rather than what most local families actually pay. About 14% of households include children, and with a 20.3% poverty rate, this is a genuinely mixed-income stretch of the borough.

The school is unusually well-served by transit: Franklin Av–Medgar Evers College (2, 3, 4, 5) is about a 4-minute walk, Botanic Garden (S) about 5 minutes, and Nostrand Av (3) about 6 minutes away.