Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn, Brooklyn NY

Original Research by School Decision on Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn

Hyde Leadership Charter School - Brooklyn is a public charter school serving kindergarten through eighth grade, located on Alabama Avenue in the East New York section of Brooklyn. The school operates across two sites, with an elementary program for grades K through 5 and a separate middle school for grades 6 through 8, which means families who enroll in kindergarten can stay within the same school community through the end of eighth grade without a forced transfer.

The student body is entirely composed of students of color, with Black and Hispanic students making up the overwhelming majority of enrollment. Free and reduced-price lunch eligibility data was not available in the data provided, so economic context for the student population cannot be characterized here.

On state assessments administered through New York's testing program, the picture across subjects is uneven. In English language arts, the school shows relative strength as students move through the grades, with proficiency in the upper elementary and middle grades running meaningfully higher than in the early tested grades. The eighth grade ELA result is among the stronger figures in the school's profile. Math tells a more complicated story: third and fourth grade results are solid, but performance drops in grades five and six, and seventh grade math proficiency falls to a very low level before recovering somewhat in eighth grade. Science results at both tested grade levels are on the lower side. Compared to other districts and charter LEAs within Kings County, the school's overall proficiency index sits below the midpoint of that group. A parent who wants to understand the causes of the seventh grade math dip, in particular, would do well to ask the school directly.

The school received a five-year charter renewal from its authorizer, the New York City Department of Education, in June 2023, which publicly reported accounts describe as a renewal with conditions. That conditional status means the authorizer is actively monitoring performance, and the school must demonstrate improvement to maintain its standing through the renewal period, which runs to approximately 2028. Publicly reported federal grant documentation noted that a portion of the school's teaching staff lacked full certification at the time of renewal, a factor families may want to explore further with school leadership. No graduation rate applies here, as the school does not serve high school grades.

The Alabama Avenue address places the school within a Brooklyn neighborhood that, like much of the borough, is densely built and transit-accessible. Brooklyn as a whole is one of the most walkable urban environments in the country, with extensive subway service, bus routes, and a street-level commercial fabric woven through its residential blocks. The broader borough is in an active period of housing construction, particularly in Downtown Brooklyn and Williamsburg, and home values in the zip code tied to this school are well above both the state and national medians, with rents rising as well. That housing cost context is relevant for families weighing relocation.

What this school offers is a single K-8 pathway within a charter setting, serving a majority-Black and Hispanic community in East Brooklyn. Academic outcomes are mixed across grades and subjects, the school is operating under a conditional charter renewal, and families who are drawn to this community for reasons of proximity, mission, or continuity of enrollment should go in with a clear-eyed view of the current test performance pattern and ask the school what it is doing, concretely, to address the weaker results.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

Math

Grade 358%

School 58% · district not reported

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 454%

School 54% · district not reported

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 13 pts below county median

Grade 549%

School 49% · district not reported

▼ 2 pts below state median · ▼ 9 pts below county median

Grade 640%

School 40% · district not reported

▼ 5 pts below state median · ▼ 10 pts below county median

Grade 710%

School 10% · district not reported

▼ 43 pts below state median · ▼ 48 pts below county median

Grade 836%

School 36% · district not reported

▼ 1 pts below state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 342%

School 42% · district not reported

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 22 pts below county median

Grade 443%

School 43% · district not reported

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 19 pts below county median

Grade 559%

School 59% · district not reported

▲ 4 pts above state median · ▼ 3 pts below county median

Grade 651%

School 51% · district not reported

▲ 5 pts above state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

Grade 754%

School 54% · district not reported

▲ 7 pts above state median · ▼ 4 pts below county median

Grade 862%

School 62% · district not reported

▲ 14 pts above state median · ▲ 6 pts above county median

Science

Grade 532%

School 32% · district not reported

▼ 10 pts below state median · ▼ 8 pts below county median

Grade 824%

School 24% · district not reported

▼ 9 pts below state median · ▼ 1 pts below county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 6Lower-income53%Higher-income33%19 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 6Lower-income42%Higher-income17%25 pp gap