Brooklyn Charter School

For most of the last decade, Brooklyn Charter hovered in the 30–50% proficiency range on state tests, with a brutal dip in 2022 (25% ELA, 20% math) almost certainly tied to pandemic-era disruption. The 2025 numbers are a sharp inflection: ELA jumped from 42.2% to 70.7% and math rose from 49% to 63.6%, putting both subjects above the District 14 averages of 62.4% and 59.5%. By grade, third graders look especially strong (75% ELA, 88% math), while fourth-grade math (39.3%) is a clear weak spot worth asking about. The trajectory is clearly improving, and a single year of strong scores doesn't yet erase the volatility of the past, but this is the first time Brooklyn Charter has clearly outperformed its district on both subjects at once.

The trust numbers here are exceptional — 100% parent satisfaction, 97% parent-teacher trust, 100% teacher-principal trust, and 98% teacher-reported safety — and they're reinforced by a small school where 81 families and 21 teachers actually responded. That's the kind of community where a phone call home tends to land with someone who knows your kid. But chronic absenteeism sits at 54.9%, well above what most educators would consider healthy, and it's notably higher among girls (58%) and Black students (57%) than Hispanic students (45.6%). The 89.3% attendance rate is right at the district average, but the chronic-absenteeism number tells you that a lot of kids are missing chunks of school — even as classroom achievement is rising. The overall attendance assessment is moderate: the daily-attendance rate is fine, but the chronic-absenteeism gap is a real flag.

The student body is 77% Black and 18% Hispanic, with very small Asian, white, multiracial, and Native American populations — a diversity index of 40% reflects a fairly homogeneous school community rather than a mixed one. The economic need index of 86.9% tells you most students come from low-income households, and 21% have IEPs, a meaningfully higher share than at many neighborhood schools. Surrounding Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) is a neighborhood where the median household income is roughly $77,700, just under half of adults have a bachelor's degree, and homeownership is low at 20.4%, so a lot of families renting here are sending their kids to a school that looks demographically a lot like the block around it.

Bedford-Stuyvesant (West) is a family-dense but economically mixed pocket of central Brooklyn — about 15.7% of households have children, the poverty rate is 27.9%, and the median home value of $1.27 million reflects how much the housing market has shifted even as a sizable share of residents remain lower-income. With nearly half of adults holding a bachelor's degree, this is a neighborhood with both long-standing Black working-class roots and a steady influx of newer, often more affluent, residents. For families choosing Brooklyn Charter, the surrounding census tract is also where most of their neighbors live.

Brooklyn Charter is exceptionally well-served by transit — the Myrtle-Willoughby Avs G stop is about a two-minute walk, and the Flushing Av G and Bedford-Nostrand Avs G stops are each about a nine- to ten-minute walk away.