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Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls, Albany, NY

Charter schoolCEP schoolBrighter Choice Charter School for Girls is a public elementary school in Albany, part of Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls. It enrolled 316 students in 2024-25, with 11.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "BRIGHTER CHOICE CHARTER SCHOOL FOR GIRLS".

Enrollment and teachers

Students
316
Teachers (FTE)
27.0
Students per teacher
11.7
Grades
K to 5

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 11.7. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school11.7
District11.7
New York11.4
United States15.3

School details

Address
250 Central Ave, Albany, NY 12206
Phone
(518)694-4100
District
Brighter Choice Charter School for Girls
County
Albany County
Level
Elementary
Type
Regular
Status
Open
Charter
Yes
Virtual
No
Locale
City: Midsize
NCES school ID
360003304311
Location from NCES coordinates. Map data OpenStreetMap contributors. Open larger map

School meals

Counts of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, as reported to NCES.
Free lunch
244
Reduced-price lunch
12
Free or reduced-price lunch
25681.0% of enrollment.
Community Eligibility Provision
Yes (CEP school)

Schools in the Community Eligibility Provision (CEP) serve free meals to all students, so their free lunch counts often reflect direct certification or total enrollment. Free and reduced lunch shares are not comparable between CEP and non-CEP schools.

Related schools

Elementary schools elsewhere in Albany

We publish official enrollment and staffing data, not ratings or test scores.

Source: NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 and F-33 finance 2020, via the Urban Institute Education Data Portal. Last reviewed October 2026. Blank values are not available, not applicable or suppressed in the source. See the methodology.