Elementary · Regular · Grades K to 8

Explore Charter School, Brooklyn, NY

Charter schoolExplore Charter School is a public elementary school in Brooklyn, part of Explore Charter School. It enrolled 574 students in 2024-25, with 14.7 students per full-time teacher.Listed in NCES data as "EXPLORE CHARTER SCHOOL".

Enrollment and teachers

Students: 574
Teachers (FTE): 39.0
Students per teacher: 14.7
Grades: K to 8

This school's ratio is about the same as the district figure of 14.7. The New York average across schools is 11.4. Ratios count all teachers, including specialists, so they are lower than typical class sizes.

This school14.7

District14.7

New York11.4

United States15.3

School details

Address: 655 Parkside Ave, Brooklyn, NY 11226
Phone: (718)703-4484
District: Explore Charter School
County: Kings County
Level: Elementary
Type: Regular
Status: Open
Charter: Yes
Virtual: No
Locale: City: Large
NCES school ID: 360015705846

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: 464
Reduced-price lunch: 7
Free or reduced-price lunch: 47182.1% of enrollment.

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.

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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.