The Brooklyn School for Math and Research

Proficiency data for ELA, math, and science isn't reported in this dataset, so academic outcomes can't be benchmarked against the district averages of roughly 46% ELA proficiency and 43% math proficiency. What is clear is the academic identity the school advertises: AP coursework, STEM and coding/robotics, ELL support, and world languages (Mandarin and Spanish) suggest a college-prep orientation with explicit attention to English learners. Program richness scores a perfect 100/100, and 17% of students have IEPs, indicating real inclusion rather than tracking.

The single most striking number here is zero suspensions — not a low rate, but literally none — which is exceptionally rare and signals either strong classroom management, a culture where issues get handled before they escalate, or both. Parent trust is unusually high and uniform: 95% on satisfaction, parent-teacher trust, and parent-principal trust, with a 97% family survey response rate showing families are actively engaged. The one trust gap worth flagging is between teachers and their principal — 76% — versus 95% parent-principal trust, which suggests teachers feel less aligned with leadership than families do, even as collegial trust among teachers themselves sits at 94%.

The student body is 44% Black, 42% Hispanic, 8% Asian, 4% White, with a diversity index of 62%, reflecting the predominantly Black and Latino makeup of the surrounding Bushwick community. Economic need index of 80.8 is high, meaning most students come from households under significant financial pressure, and the school sits in a census tract where 23.9% of residents live below the poverty line. IEP enrollment of 17% points to a genuinely inclusive setting, and the ELL support program serves the bilingual reality of many families in the area.

Bushwick, on the school's side of the border, is a dense, working-class neighborhood where most households rent (homeownership is just 20.5%) and where about a third of adults hold a bachelor's degree. Median household income sits around $67,000 and median home values near $949,000 reflect how much the housing market has shifted even as day-to-day demographics haven't. Roughly 11.5% of households include children, a smaller share than the city average, which is consistent with the neighborhood's mix of longtime families and newer adult renters.

Getting here by transit is genuinely easy: the Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs station serves both the M and L lines about a 5-minute walk away, and Seneca Av on the M is roughly 10 minutes on foot.