Achievement First Bushwick Charter School
- 1300 GREENE AVENUE, Brooklyn
- Grades K-12
- Courtney Saretzky, Principal
- 718-453-0425
About
Achievement First Bushwick Charter School serves students from kindergarten through 12th grade. With an enrollment of 907 students, it is well above the citywide median. The school's student population includes 27 percent English Language Learners, which is above the 75th percentile citywide, and 26 percent of students have an Individualized Education Program, near the citywide median. The Economic Need Index is 81 percent, also near the citywide median. The school describes its mission as preparing every student to excel in college and career, deepen their knowledge of self and community, and lead lives of purpose, working to disrupt the legacy of inequity in education. In grades 3-8, students show strong academic performance, with 60 percent proficient in ELA and 66 percent proficient in Math, both above the citywide median. Additionally, 45 percent of students participate in accelerated coursework, which is above the citywide median. For high school students, 100 percent of those taking the Algebra I Regents exam passed. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
Sources (3)
- NYC DOE Location Code Generating and Management System (LCGMS) · 2026-27 (export of 2026-08-22)
- NYC DOE School Quality Reports and Snapshot, 2024-25 · 2024-25
- NYC School Survey (parent and student responses)
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
60%
Math proficiency
66%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
95%
Avg class size (general ed)
—
Avg class size (ICT)
—
Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
NYC School Survey, 2025-26
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2025-2026). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.[3]
Operational health
Attendance
95%
Chronic absenteeism
22%
Suspension rate
1%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
67%
Students per teacher
17:1
Teaching out of certification
81%
Teacher experience and certification from the NYSED School Report Card (2024–25); students per teacher = enrollment ÷ reported teachers. Fewer than 4 years counts as inexperienced.
Student body
Race / ethnicity[4]
- Black 20%
- Hispanic 75%
- White 2%
- Multiracial 1%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 49%
- Male 51%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
907
Economic Need Index
81%
Free / reduced lunch
91%
English learners
27%
Students with IEPs
26%
Financials
[8]What this school has to spend, and what it spends it on. Spending is not a measure of quality. Schools serving more students with higher needs receive more money.
Charter schools manage their own budgets rather than receiving a school allocation from the DOE, so the staffing and supplies breakdown the DOE publishes for district schools is not published for this school.
Spending
Total spend
$20.1MStudents: 898
74th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$22,415
7th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.