Williamsburg Charter High School

Specific proficiency rates aren't in this dataset, but the indirect academic signals are notably strong: 97% of teachers rate the quality of instruction at their own school positively, running well above the District 14 average of about 93%, which usually tracks with how seriously adults take classroom work. Average class size sits right at the district average (21.6 students), so students aren't getting the small-class benefit some charters advertise. The 19% IEP rate and 83% economic need index mean a substantial share of students arrive needing extra support, and the strong trust numbers suggest the staff culture is oriented toward meeting them where they are.

Williamsburg Charter's survey numbers are the story. Parent-teacher trust is 92%, parent-principal trust is 93%, and teacher-principal trust climbs to 97% — figures that suggest families feel heard and teachers feel backed by leadership, which is not the norm at every school. Teacher collegial trust is lower at 85%, hinting that staff-to-staff dynamics are good but not as tight as the leadership relationships. The 25% family survey response rate (158 families) is a respectable turnout for a high school of this size, where engaging teenagers' parents is famously harder than at the elementary level.

The student body is 61% Hispanic and 36% Black, with Asian and White students each at about 1% — a student population that is concentrated rather than mixed, reflecting the demographics of the surrounding working-class Brooklyn families the school was founded to serve. An economic need index of 83.3% means more than eight in ten students qualify as high-need, and 19% have IEPs, so this is a school built around supporting kids who often arrive behind. The neighborhood around the school tells a different story — only 9.2% of households there have children, and the median home value has crossed seven figures — a sign that the families sending kids here increasingly live nearby only because the charter drew them in, while the blocks themselves have filled with renters without kids.

East Williamsburg is a neighborhood in transition: median household income sits at about $82,000 with a 24% poverty rate, meaning modest incomes and real economic stress live side by side. Just under half of working-age residents hold a bachelor's degree, and homeownership is unusually low at 12.5%, which is typical of a renter-heavy, young-adult-skewing area. Only about 9% of households include children, which is one of the lowest family-density figures in Brooklyn and tells you most of the people on these blocks are not raising kids here.

Transit access is genuinely good — the L at Morgan Av is roughly a five-minute walk, the L at Montrose Av about seven minutes, and the M and J at Flushing Av around eight minutes, giving families from Williamsburg, Bushwick, and Ridgewood practical options.