At a Glance
A small Brownsville charter PK-8 serving a high-needs student body, where parent and teacher signals trail the district by wide margins.
Best suited for
Families with IEPs who want a small setting with deep special-education staffing and are prepared to be highly engaged advocates given the low satisfaction signals from current parents and teachers.
What stands out
- Despite the "High School" in its name, the school actually serves Pre-K through 8th grade — unusual branding worth noting for any parent searching by grade level.
- Very small enrollment of 203 students spread across ten grades means tight cohorts and likely close student-teacher relationships.
- An IEP rate of 38% — well above typical — signals a school that has built significant special-education capacity.
- Economic need index of 87.9% places this among the higher-need schools in the district.
- Direct access to the 3 train within a three-minute walk makes commute logistics unusually easy for a Brownsville school.
Things to consider
- Parent satisfaction at 53% is roughly 38 points below the district average — a gap large enough to warrant conversations with current families before enrolling.
- Teacher-reported instructional quality at 48.6% sits about 40 points below the district norm, suggesting internal conditions that may affect the classroom experience.
- State proficiency results are not part of this dataset, so families should request those numbers directly from the school.
- The very small size limits elective offerings, athletic teams, and the kind of peer social network a larger school provides.
- The surrounding neighborhood carries concentrated poverty that shapes both the school community and the after-school environment kids return to each day.
Based on 2023-24 data
School SummaryDistrict 17
District 17 is home to some of the city's highest-performing charter schools — Success Academy prospects here score in the high 90s — alongside a mix of solid neighborhood schools. This school does not appear among the top-scoring peers in the district, and the climate signals suggest it sits meaningfully below that tier rather than alongside it.
Academics
State proficiency figures are not included in this dataset, so a like-for-like academic comparison to the district isn't possible here. What we can read from the supporting data: class size averages 22, essentially identical to the district average, and the school carries an unusually high IEP rate of 38% — well above typical levels, which shapes how instructional time and staffing are organized. The economic need index of 87.9% confirms that the school serves a population where academic catching-up is the everyday work.
Culture
The day-to-day climate here is the part of the profile that demands a long look. Only 53% of parents report being satisfied — versus a district average around 91% — and teacher-rated instructional quality comes in at 48.6% against a district norm near 89%. Those are not marginal gaps; they suggest something is off in the experience of families and staff, whether that's communication, leadership, or classroom conditions. Attendance and chronic absenteeism figures aren't included, so the stability of the student experience from day to day can't be fully gauged from this profile.
Community
This is a predominantly Black school (77%) with a meaningful Hispanic contingent (19%) and very small representation from other groups. The diversity index of 39% is on the lower side, which simply reflects that the school draws from a fairly homogeneous local population rather than a wide cross-section of the city. Brownsville itself skews similarly Black and Hispanic, and with a poverty rate above 37% and a median household income in the low $30,000s, the school mirrors the economic reality of the families in its catchment.
Neighborhood
Brownsville is one of the poorest census tracts in Brooklyn: roughly 37.6% of residents live below the poverty line, median household income sits near $33,500, and only about 13% of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Homeownership is unusually low at 14.2%, though median home values still clear $480,000 — a reflection of citywide price pressure rather than local wealth. Just 7.9% of households here have children, which is on the low side and reflects both the age distribution and the broader economic pressures on family formation in the area.
The 3 train at Sutter Av-Rutland Rd is a roughly 3-minute walk, the 3 at Saratoga Av is about 11 minutes, and the 3/4 transfer at Crown Hts-Utica Av is also about 11 minutes on foot.
Survey Results
NYC School Survey (2025)
Racial & Ethnic Diversity
NYC DOE InfoHub · 2022-23
Economic Need & Special Populations
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