Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
- 465 EAST 29 STREET, Brooklyn
- Grades K-5
- 347-464-7600
About
Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School serves students in grades K-5 and has an enrollment of 752 students, which is above the citywide 75th percentile. The school demonstrates strong academic outcomes, with 80 percent of students achieving proficiency in ELA and 78 percent in Math, both well above the citywide 75th percentile for elementary schools. The school's Economic Need Index is 81 percent, near the citywide median, and 13 percent of students are English Language Learners, also near the median. The percentage of students with Individualized Education Programs is 13 percent, which is below the citywide 25th percentile. The student population is predominantly Black at 83 percent, with 11 percent Hispanic and 1 percent White. The school reports a 0 percent suspension rate, indicating a positive disciplinary environment. Central Brooklyn Ascend Charter School describes itself as part of a network that honors, nurtures, and challenges the whole child, fostering critical thinking and a love of learning through approaches like the Science of Reading, inquiry-based learning, and the Responsive Classroom model. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
80%
Math proficiency
78%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
80%
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
80%
Chronic absenteeism
7%
Suspension rate
0%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
37%
Students per teacher
16:1
Teaching out of certification
93%
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 83%
- Hispanic 11%
- White 1%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 51%
- Male 49%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
752
Economic Need Index
81%
Free / reduced lunch
90%
English learners
13%
Students with IEPs
13%
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
$12.7MStudents: 753
42nd percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$16,821
1st percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.