East Brooklyn Ascend Charter School
School code (DBN) 84K929
Grades K-4 · 260 SHEPHERD AVENUE · Brooklyn
Jadid Zorrilla, Principal
About
East Brooklyn Ascend Charter School serves elementary students in grades K-4. With an enrollment of 151 students, it is a smaller school compared to the citywide median. The school has a high Economic Need Index, with 86 percent of students facing economic hardship, which is near the 75th percentile citywide. The student population includes 21 percent English Language Learners, which is above the citywide median, and 13 percent of students with Individualized Education Programs, which is below the 25th percentile. Academically, the school demonstrates strong performance, with 77 percent of students achieving ELA proficiency and 85 percent achieving math proficiency, both well above the citywide 75th percentile for elementary schools. The school reports a 0 percent suspension rate. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
Sources (5)
- 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
- New York State Education Department School Report Card · 2024-25
- NYC School Survey (parent and student responses)
- MySchools admissions directory, 2025-26 cycle · 2025-26 admissions cycle
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
77%
Math proficiency
85%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
76%
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, 2023-24
This school has no published results in the 2025-26 NYC School Survey. These are its 2023-24 results.
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
76%
Chronic absenteeism
13%
Suspension rate
0%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
62%
Students per teacher
19:1
Teaching out of certification
100%
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 39%
- Hispanic 56%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 56%
- Male 44%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
151
Economic Need Index
86%
Free / reduced lunch
93%
English learners
21%
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
$2.9MStudents: 152
0th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$19,114
3rd percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.