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Daily attendance has averaged 98 percent of enrolled students at Brooklyn Ascend Charter School, the school reported today.

“We are very pleased with this early result,” said Dean of Students Amy Heberling. “We know that attendance and achievement are strongly correlated, and new research highlights the previously underestimated effects of elementary absenteeism. We are off to a strong start, but we can and must do still better.” Read more

The waiting list for seats at the Brooklyn Ascend Charter School hit 1,000 today.

Currently, the new school enrolls 210 students in kindergarten through grade two.

Parents continue to add the names of their children to the list, citing the school’s “No Excuses” structured environment, rigorous academic program, and high expectations. Read more

The New York Times featured Brooklyn Ascend student Bodrye Kamden on page 1 today, in a story on the first day of school for New York City school children. Reporter Elissa Gootman opened the story in second grade teacher Keisha Sykes’s class: “On the first day of school—ever—at Brooklyn Ascend Charter School, nothing in Keisha Sykes’s second-grade classroom was left to chance. Not the way students were to greet their teacher (with eye cont… Read more

School director Nikki Khosla personally welcomed every student with a handshake today, the first day of school at the new Brooklyn Ascend Charter School. The college preparatory school’s first 210 students, each in uniform, were warmly greeted by their teachers, whose classrooms bear the name of their alma mater. Posters in the lobby welcomed the classes of 2023, 2024, and 2025, the years of their anticipated college graduation. The newly completed building featu… Read more