Brooklyn Prospect Charter School

About

Brooklyn Prospect Charter School's Sunset Yards Middle School (SYMS) is a small Grade 5 program located in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, operating as part of the larger K-12 Prospect Schools network. The school serves a diverse student body, with a significant Hispanic and Black population and a notable percentage of English language learners. Academically, SYMS demonstrates strong performance, with math proficiency well above the citywide 75th percentile and ELA proficiency also exceeding the citywide median. The school maintains excellent attendance, with 100% of students identified as regular attenders. Parents responding to the school's survey report overwhelmingly positive experiences, with 100% positive feedback across all questions. The Prospect Schools network emphasizes a college preparatory curriculum, intentional diversity, and world-class academics. While the school's internal parent feedback is exceptionally high, some online community discussions and reviews for the network or other campuses have raised concerns regarding communication, social-emotional learning, and a strict culture, with some serious allegations of bullying and instructional quality issues at other locations. The intimate learning environment, with an enrollment of just 21 students, may offer a highly personalized experience.

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Academics

State test proficiency rates and acceleration.

ELA proficiency

69%

Math proficiency

88%

Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).

Attendance rate

96%

Avg class size (general ed)

—

Avg class size (ICT)

—

Community & climate

Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.

Quality signals

FacultyExcellentAI-estimated

Parent survey · overall positive

93%5% response rate

Survey topics

Family outreach90%city 93%

School staff regularly communicate with me about how I can help my child learn.80%
Teachers work closely with me to meet my child's needs.80%
My child's school communicates with me in a language that I can understand.100%
I am greeted warmly when I contact or visit the school.100%

Each question’s favorable response rate; the topic score (90%) is their average, vs 93% citywide.

Parent–teacher trust100%city 95%

I feel respected by my child's teachers.100%
Staff at this school work hard to build trusting relationships with parents/guardians like me.100%
My child's teachers treat me as a partner in educating my child.100%

Each question’s favorable response rate; the topic score (100%) is their average, vs 95% citywide.

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Effective School Leadership

Inclusive Leadership100%city 95%

The principal/school leader at this school…puts decisions made with families into action.100%
The principal/school leader at this school…works to create a sense of community in the school.100%
The principal/school leader at this school…ensures families are comfortable communicating with the school.100%

Each question’s favorable response rate; the topic score (100%) is their average, vs 95% citywide.

Strong Family-Community Ties

Parent Involvement in School80%city 89%

Since the beginning of the school year, how often have you…communicated with your child's teachers about your child's performance?.60%
Since the beginning of the school year, how often have you…seen your child’s projects, artwork, homework, tests, or quizzes?.100%

Each question’s favorable response rate; the topic score (80%) is their average, vs 89% citywide.

Trust

Parent-Principal Trust100%city 94%

I feel respected by my child's principal/school leader.100%
I trust the principal/school leader at their word (to do what they say that they will do).100%

Each question’s favorable response rate; the topic score (100%) is their average, vs 94% citywide.

Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2023-2024). 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

96%

Chronic absenteeism

0%

Suspension rate

—

Student body

Race / ethnicity^[4]

Black 29%
Hispanic 57%

School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.

Gender^[4]

Female 57%
Male 43%

Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.

Enrollment

21

Economic Need Index

64%

Free / reduced lunch

—

English learners

24%

Students with IEPs

19%

Location & commute

Where the school is and how to get there.

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