# BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL

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## Core identification
- **NCES School ID**: `360096606069`
- **School name**: BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL
- **Location**: BROOKLYN, NY 11212
- **Address**: 205 ROCKAWAY PKWY-2ND FL
- **District**: BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (LEAID `3600966`)
- **Sector**: Public
- **School type**: Regular
- **School level**: Other
- **Grade range**: 0–12
- **Charter school**: Yes
- **Coordinates**: 40.66210, -73.92080
- **Phone**: (718)907-9150

## Enrollment (2024)
- **Students**: 951
- **Teachers (FTE)**: 61
- **Student-teacher ratio**: 15.6:1
- **Free/reduced lunch**: 89.5%

## State accountability rating
- **System**: NY ESSA
- **Year**: 2025
- **Overall rating**: Local Support and Improvement
- **Indicators**:
  - HS Grad Rate: 2
  - HS ELP: s
  - HS Core Performance: 2
  - HS CCCR: 2
  - HS Attendance: 3
  - EM Growth: 4
  - EM Core Performance: 4
  - EM Weight Performance: 4
  - HS Weight Performance: 2
  - EM Attendance: 3
  - EM ELP: s
  - overall_status: Local Support and Improvement

## Academic performance (state assessments)
### 2025
- **Overall (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient
- **Overall Status (NY ESSA)**: 62.0% proficient

## Graduation rates
- **2024**: 74.0% (cohort of 50)
- **2021**: 84.5% (cohort of 52)

## Attendance
- **2020**: chronic absence 19.6% (325 students) [source: crdc_2020]
- **2020**: chronic absence 1.9% (24 students) [source: crdc]
- **2017**: chronic absence 0.9% (11 students) [source: crdc]
- **2015**: chronic absence 10.8% (137 students) [source: crdc]

## Discipline (latest CRDC year)
- **Year**: 2020
- **In-school suspensions**: 0
- **Out-of-school suspensions**: 0
- **Expulsions**: 0

## Demographics (2023)
- **White**: 0.7%
- **Hispanic/Latino**: 5.7%
- **Black/African American**: 0.3%
- **Asian**: 91.2%
- **American Indian/Alaska Native**: 0.7%
- **Pacific Islander**: 0.1%
- **Two or more races**: 1.1%
- **Free/reduced lunch eligible**: 90.3%

## Inclusion — IDEA & English Learners (2017)
- **Students with IEP (IDEA)**: 5.4% — 68 students
- **English Learners**: 0.5% — 6 students

## Programs & enrichment
- Advanced Placement (AP)

## Finance
### School-level (ESSA 2024-2025)
- **Total per-pupil expenditure**: $18,432
- **Federal share**: $2,379
- **State + local share**: $16,053
- **Enrolled for PPE calc**: 1,265
### District F-33 (2022)
- **Instructional spending per pupil**: $9,147,780

## Neighbourhood (ACS 2019-2023)
- **Median household income**: $31,496
- **Poverty rate**: 42.4%
- **Bachelor's degree or higher**: 13.2%
- **Unemployment**: 33.9%
- **Median gross rent**: $1,494
- **Foreign-born residents**: 53.4%
- **Single-parent households**: 24.6%

## Environmental context
- **Nearest Superfund (NPL)**: 2.3 miles (WOLFF ALPORT CHEMICAL COMPANY)
- **Toxic Release Inventory sites within 1 mile**: 1
- **TRI sites within 5 miles**: 111
- **Nearest brownfield**: 0.99 miles (BUSHWICK HOUSING SITES 1 2)

### Water safety
- **Public water system**: CORNER STONE COURT
- **SDWA health violations (10 yr)**: 3
- **Acute violations (10 yr)**: 0
- **Most recent violation**: 2025-01-01

### Air quality
- **PM2.5 annual average**: 8.36016 μg/m³ (EPA std: 9)
- **Nearest monitor**: 2.3 miles

## Nearby schools performing better

### chronic absence
- **SID MILLER ACADEMY** — 0.6 mi away, 0% (this school: 1.9%)
- **MOTT HALL IV** — 0.7 mi away, 1.82% (this school: 1.9%)
- **NEW HEIGHTS MIDDLE SCHOOL** — 0.8 mi away, 1.79% (this school: 1.9%)
- **BROOKLYN GREEN SCHOOL (THE)** — 0.9 mi away, 1.56% (this school: 1.9%)
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 1.0 mi away, 1.88% (this school: 1.9%)

### ela proficiency
- **IS 392** — 0.3 mi away, 60% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 76% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 0.5 mi away, 73% (this school: 58%)
- **EAGLE ACADEMY FOR YOUNG MEN II** — 1.1 mi away, 66% (this school: 58%)
- **PS 397 FOSTER-LAURIE** — 1.4 mi away, 62% (this school: 58%)

### graduation rate
- **BROOKLYN COLLEGIATE: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 82% (this school: 74%)
- **ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BROWNSVILLE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.9 mi away, 77% (this school: 74%)
- **KURT HAHN EXPEDITIONARY LEARNING SCHOOL** — 1.0 mi away, 82% (this school: 74%)
- **IT TAKES A VILLAGE ACADEMY** — 1.0 mi away, 76% (this school: 74%)
- **CULTURAL ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS AND SCIENCES** — 1.0 mi away, 87% (this school: 74%)

### math proficiency
- **PS 770 NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY** — 0.4 mi away, 64% (this school: 58.5%)
- **KINGS COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOL** — 0.5 mi away, 80.2% (this school: 58.5%)
- **PS 268 EMMA LAZARUS** — 0.5 mi away, 86% (this school: 58.5%)
- **PS 165 IDA POSNER** — 0.6 mi away, 63% (this school: 58.5%)
- **PS 244 RICHARD R GREEN** — 1.0 mi away, 71% (this school: 58.5%)

## Related data feeds
- **Profile (human)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn
- **Performance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/performance
- **Finance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/finance
- **Demographics**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/demographics
- **Inclusion**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/inclusion
- **Context (neighbourhood)**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/context
- **Attendance**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/attendance
- **Discipline**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/discipline
- **Outcomes**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/outcomes
- **Workforce**: https://us.ny.whatschool.ai/en/ny/school/brooklyn-ascend-charter-school-brooklyn/workforce

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*Source: US Dept of Education CCD, EDFacts, CRDC, F-33; US Census ACS; EPA SDWIS, TRI, NPL, AQS; state DOE portals (CA CDE, TX TEA, FL DOE, NY NYSED, IL ISBE, WA OSPI). Aggregated by WhatSchool.ai.*

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