Community Partnership Charter School

The school's 73% ELA and 67% math proficiency sit comfortably above the district averages of 53% and 46% — and the overall rating of 2.8/4 lands well above the district mean of roughly 2.0/4. The decade-long trajectory is the real headline: ELA went from 28.9% in 2016 to 73% in 2025, and math from 26.2% to 67%. A few caveats are worth flagging. Math dipped from 75.1% in 2024 to 67% in 2025, an eight-point drop worth watching. There is also meaningful grade-by-grade choppiness — Grade 6 posts Math proficiency of 89.1% while Grade 8 lands at 45.2% — suggesting the middle-school math programming may need reinforcement as students approach the transition to high school.

Day-to-day, the school reads as warm and trusting. Parents give the school a 93% satisfaction rating, parent-teacher trust hits 95%, and parent-principal trust is at 94% — all comfortably above district averages. Teachers rate instruction quality at 100% and reported safety at 100%, which are unusually high marks. Discipline is moving in the right direction: suspensions fell from 34 in 2021-22 to 19 in 2023-24, and the 3% suspension rate is well above the district's 1.4% average, so this is a school that still removes students from class more than its peers, but the trend line is improving. The one consistent worry is chronic absenteeism: at 49% of students, nearly half miss enough school to be flagged, a rate that exceeds the district norm considerably.

The student body is 62% Black, 26% Hispanic, and 8% Native American, with a 55% diversity index. That mix is strikingly different from the surrounding census tract, where median household income is roughly $118,000, more than 70% of adults hold a bachelor's degree, and homeownership runs near 39% at a median value above $1.1 million. Community Partnership draws families from well beyond its immediate address — the school reflects a broader, more working-class Brooklyn than the block it sits on. With an economic need index of 83.3 and 16% of students classified as IEP, this is genuinely a high-need population being served well by the school's academic program.

Clinton Hill is a Brooklyn neighborhood that has gentrified decisively over the past two decades — brownstone-lined blocks, a median home value north of $1.1 million, and a population where 71.5% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. The median household income is about $118,733 with a 10.3% poverty rate, and only 13.5% of households include children, reinforcing that the school is serving families who often commute in from elsewhere in Brooklyn. It is a stroller-and-espresso neighborhood, with the kind of street-level density that supports independent coffee shops, art studios, and family-friendly weekends.

The Classon Av station on the G train is roughly a two-minute walk, with Clinton-Washington Avs (G) about seven minutes and Bedford-Nostrand Avs (G) around eight minutes on foot.