At a Glance
A small Brooklyn charter with a dramatic academic climb, tight class sizes, and mixed signals from inside the building.
Best suited for
Families drawn to a small K-8 charter with strong and rising test scores, smaller class sizes, and a diverse student body — and who are comfortable navigating a lottery and asking pointed questions about staff climate during a tour.
Overall Rating
Rating = average of NY State ELA + math proficiency, grades 3–8
Bands are Motley's thresholds on a 0–100 scale, not New York State performance levels.
How this is scored→What stands out
- Dramatic multi-year academic climb, with ELA nearly doubling since 2018
- Average class size of 21.2 — meaningfully smaller than the district's roughly 25
- K-8 continuity on a single campus
- Exceptionally high daily attendance at 98.7%
Things to consider
- The 49% teacher-reported instruction quality score is a significant outlier against the district norm
- Parent satisfaction at 85% trails the district average
- Charter lottery admission means there is no guaranteed seat
- Survey results are based on very low family response rates and should be interpreted cautiously
Based on 2025 data
School SummaryDistrict 15
Brooklyn Prospect sits among the stronger performers in District 15, with academic outcomes that rival the top-rated peers like the Beacon School and Success Academy Cobble Hill, though its overall quality score of 3.15/4 doesn't quite match their peer ratings of 95/100. It clearly outpaces the district averages on both subjects and class size.
Academics
Brooklyn Prospect's 80.5% ELA proficiency and 76.8% math proficiency land roughly 15 percentage points above District 15 averages in both subjects, and the school earns a 3.15/4 overall quality score versus the district's 2.58. The trend is the real headline: ELA climbed from 44.8% in 2018 to 80.5% in 2025, while math has settled in the mid-70s after some fluctuation. Strength is fairly even across grades 3, 4, 5, and 7, though grade 6 is a visible dip — 68.8% ELA and 61% math — worth asking about on a tour.
Culture
Attendance is outstanding at 98.7%, far above the district's 93.5%, suggesting students want to be here. Survey results are more complicated: parent-teacher and parent-principal trust both sit in the low 90s, but parent satisfaction (85%) trails the district's 93%, and teacher-reported instruction quality landed at just 49% against a district average near 89%. The family survey response rate was only 2% (about 14 respondents), so the parent-facing numbers carry wide margins of error — but the instruction-quality gap is large enough to be a real signal worth pressing on during a visit.
Community
With 418 students across K-8, this is a smaller-than-average school. The student body is genuinely mixed — 38% White, 27% Black, 17% Hispanic, 9% multiracial, 7% Asian — yielding a diversity index of 81%. Fifteen percent of students have IEPs, and the economic need index of 34.6 points to a predominantly middle-class population, somewhat more affluent than the surrounding neighborhood profile.
Neighborhood
Western Sunset Park is a middle-income area with a median household income around $81,000, a 35.7% rate of residents holding a bachelor's degree or higher, and a 17.3% poverty rate. About one in five households includes children, and homeownership sits at 25%, consistent with this stretch of Brooklyn where renters still predominate. The school draws families who want relative residential calm without giving up quick subway access into Manhattan and other parts of Brooklyn.
Three R-line-adjacent stops serve the school: 36 St (D, N, R) about a 5-minute walk, 45 St (R) about 7 minutes, and 53 St (R) about 14 minutes.
Enrollment & applying
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Academic Performance
ELA Proficiency
Students scoring proficient or above on the NY State ELA exam.
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Math Proficiency
Students scoring proficient or above on the NY State Math exam.
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Historical Trends
The dashed line marks 2023, when New York changed its grades 3–8 state tests. Scores before and after it aren’t directly comparable.
2020–2021 data unavailable due to COVID-19
Source: NYC DOE School Quality Reports
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025) · 14 families responded (2% rate)
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Economic Need & Special Populations
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Frequently Asked Questions
- Is Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 a good school?
- On Motley, Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 earns an overall rating of 79/100 — the average of the school's New York State ELA and math proficiency, grades 3–8, shown out of 100. Its state test results run above the District 15 average.
- What grades does Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 serve?
- Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 serves grades K to 8.
- How do students get into Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2?
- Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 is a charter school — it admits through a free public lottery, with no test or attendance zone.
- Is Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 public, charter, or private?
- Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 is a public charter school in NYC Community School District 15.
- What neighborhood is Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 in?
- Brooklyn Prospect Charter School - CSD 13.2 is in Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn.