Canarsie Ascend Charter School

At 74.7% ELA and 69.3% math proficiency in 2025, students here outperform the District 18 average by roughly 16 and 8 percentage points respectively. The school hit an earlier peak around 2018 (70.2% ELA, 73.5% math), softened through the pandemic, and is now posting its highest ELA mark on record. Grade-by-grade results are uneven — Grade 7 hits 87.5% in ELA while Grade 5 math lands at 49.3% — so the experience depends meaningfully on which cohort your child lands in.

Daily attendance is strong at 96.9% (well above the district's 90.5%), yet chronic absenteeism sits at 93% — a striking pattern that suggests many students have sporadic rather than fully consistent attendance. Parent satisfaction comes in at 79%, noticeably below the district's 92.8%, and the family survey response rate was effectively zero (4 responses), so there is little direct family voice in this picture. Teacher-rated instruction quality is 82.8% — solid but below the district's 89.8%.

The student body is 91% Black with small shares of Hispanic, Asian, White, multiracial, and Native American students, mirroring Canarsie's longstanding Black majority. About 58.5% of students qualify as economically needy — a moderate level for a Brooklyn charter. The school draws from a community where median household income is roughly $82,000 and over half of residents own their homes, a meaningfully middle-class footprint for the borough.

Canarsie is a stable, family-oriented Brooklyn neighborhood with a median home value near $688,000 and a roughly 13% poverty rate — solidly middle-class for outer-borough New York. About 28.7% of adults here hold a bachelor's degree, and a homeownership rate of 50% is high for New York City, reflecting long-established residential roots. The L train terminus at Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy anchors the commute into Manhattan and across Brooklyn.

The school is a quick 5-minute walk from the Canarsie-Rockaway Pkwy L stop, with East 105 St (L) about 10 minutes away on foot.