Launch Expeditionary Learning Charter School

Math proficiency of 64.7% is well above the district average of 57%, while ELA proficiency of 55.2% sits just below the district mark of 57.6% — putting Launch ahead on math and roughly even on ELA. The trajectory is the more striking story: math proficiency climbed from 16.8% in 2016 to 64.7% in 2025 (with some year-to-year volatility, including a dip to 17.7% in 2022), while ELA rose steadily from 15.4% to 55.2%. The school has outperformed its own past by a wide margin and now ranks above its district peers on overall score (2.4 vs. 2.29).

The day-to-day feel here reads as warm and tight-knit, not chaotic: parent satisfaction is 96% (well above the district's 91%), parent-principal trust sits at 95%, and teacher-principal trust is 99%. Teacher-rated instruction quality is 98%, far above the district's 86%, suggesting strong classroom leadership. The honest wrinkle is chronic absenteeism at 58.5% — meaning more than half of students miss 10% or more of school days — even though the attendance rate itself (88.9%) is basically tied with the district. In short: families feel heard and teachers feel supported, but getting kids physically in the building every day remains the school's biggest operational challenge.

The student body is 82% Black, 12% Hispanic, and small slices of Asian, White, multiracial, and Native American students — a diversity index of 36% that reflects a fairly homogeneous campus. With an economic need index of 82.9 and 26% of students with IEPs, this is a school serving a predominantly working-class Brooklyn population. The school sits in a neighborhood where roughly one in five households lives below the poverty line and only 16% of homes are owner-occupied, so the families enrolling here are largely the families who already live nearby.

Crown Heights (North) is a transit-friendly stretch of Brooklyn where median household income sits around $73,859 and more than 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher — a mix of long-time residents and a growing share of newer, higher-income homeowners. With only 11% of households containing children and a median home value above $1 million, the blocks around the school reflect a neighborhood in transition, where school-age kids are a smaller slice of the population than they used to be. Getting here by transit is straightforward, with three subway lines within roughly a ten-minute walk.

The Utica Av station (A, C trains) is about a 7-minute walk, with the Kingston-Throop Avs C train stop roughly 9 minutes away and the Crown Hts–Utica Av 3 and 4 trains about 10 minutes on foot.