Achievement First Apollo Charter School
- 350 LINWOOD STREET, Brooklyn
- Grades K-8
- Jessica Mcdonald/D'asia Adger, Principal
- 718-235-2647
About
Achievement First Apollo Charter School serves students in grades K-8 in Brooklyn. The school has an enrollment of 763 students, which is above the citywide 75th percentile. The school's Economic Need Index is 84 percent, near the citywide median. The student population includes 11 percent English Language Learners, which is below the citywide median, and 14 percent with Individualized Education Programs, which is below the citywide 25th percentile. In academic outcomes, 55 percent of students demonstrated proficiency in ELA, which is near the citywide median, while 64 percent achieved proficiency in Math, which is above the citywide median. The school reports 28 percent of students participating in accelerated coursework, near the citywide median. The school describes its mission as preparing students for college and career, deepening their knowledge of self and community, and leading lives of purpose, working to disrupt educational inequity. 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
55%
Math proficiency
64%
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
29%
Suspension rate
4%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
64%
Students per teacher
17:1
Teaching out of certification
89%
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]
- Asian 8%
- Black 48%
- Hispanic 40%
- Multiracial 1%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 48%
- Male 52%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
763
Economic Need Index
84%
Free / reduced lunch
88%
English learners
11%
Students with IEPs
14%
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
$15.6MStudents: 753
59th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$20,763
5th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.