East Flatbush Ascend Charter School
School code (DBN) 84K934
Grades K-5 · 870 ALBANY AVENUE · Brooklyn
Hannah Chapman, Principal
About
East Flatbush Ascend Charter School serves elementary grades K-5 in Brooklyn, with an enrollment of 227 students. Academically, students demonstrate strong proficiency, with 72 percent proficient in ELA, which is above the citywide 75th percentile. In Math, 91 percent of students achieved proficiency, well above the citywide 75th percentile. The school's Economic Need Index is 80 percent, near the citywide median. The percentage of students identified as English Language Learners is 7 percent, which is near or below the citywide 25th percentile. Students with Individualized Education Programs make up 21 percent of the enrollment, near the citywide median. The student body is predominantly Black at 88 percent, with 9 percent Hispanic and 2 percent White. The school's suspension rate is 3 percent. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
72%
Math proficiency
91%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
85%
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
85%
Chronic absenteeism
12%
Suspension rate
3%
Teachers[7]
Teachers with 4+ years' experience
37%
Students per teacher
12:1
Teaching out of certification
83%
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 88%
- Hispanic 9%
- White 2%
- 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
227
Economic Need Index
80%
Free / reduced lunch
88%
English learners
7%
Students with IEPs
21%
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
$4.6MStudents: 222
2nd percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$20,514
4th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.