School Performance
Graduation Rate: 72.000003% (at the end of the school year before last, the percent of students who graduated "on time" by earning a diploma four years after they entered 9th grade).
Daily Attendance Rate: 83.999997% of the school's students in the school year before last.
Percentage of Students Enough Variety: 61.000001% students feel that this school offers a wide enough variety of programs, classes, and activities to keep them interested in school.
College Career Rate: 44.999999% of students enroll in college or career programs within 6 months.
Percentage of Students Safe: 81% students feel safe in the hallways, bathrooms, locker room and cafeteria. (Student opinions on school safety, as reported on the NYC School Survey.)
Programs offered
Program 1: Academy for Excellence in Leadership
Code: L23A
Interest: Environmental Science
Method: Ed. Opt.
Seats 9 GE: 90
Grade 9 GE filled flag: N
Grade 9 GE applicants: 423
Grade 9 GE applicants per seat: 5
Seats 9 SWD: 18
Grade 9 SWD filled flag: Y
Grade 9 SWD applicants: 121
Grade 9 SWD applicants per seat: 7
Seats 10: 0
Admissions priority 1: Open to New York City residents
Activities
Extracurricular Activities
Extracurricular activities and clubs offered by the school that do not fall under one of the Sports categories (PSAL Sports or School Sports): No data
PSAL Sports Boys
Male PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: Baseball, Basketball, Soccer, Volleyball
PSAL Sports Girls
Female PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: Badminton, Basketball, Softball, Volleyball
PSAL Sports Coed
Co-ed PSAL (Public School Athletics League) sports offered at the school, listed under Extracurricular Activities and Clubs in the HS Directory: No data
School Sports
Sports offered by the school outside PSAL (Public School Athletics League): No data
Flag for female only school: No data
Flag for male only school: No data
Other info
Total students: 289
Start time: 8:15am
End time: 2:35pm
Final grades: 9 to 12
Language classes: French, Spanish
Advancedplacement courses: AP Biology, AP U.S. Government and Politics, AP United States History, AP English Literature and Composition, AP English Language and Composition, AP Drawing
Additional info: College Trips,Community School,Dress Code,Extended Day Tutoring,Health Center,LYFE (Living For The Young Family Through Education),Online Grading System,Orientation,Summer Bridge,Summer Orientation,Weekend Programs
School accessibility description: Partially Accessible
More info
Borough: Brooklyn
NTA: Bushwick North
Neighborhood: Bushwick
Campus name: Bushwick Educational Campus
School Number: K480
Shared space: Yes
Community board: 304
Council district: 37
Census tract: 435
BIN: 3076908
BBL: 3033650098
About Academy for Excellence in Leadership
Contacts
Address: 400 Irving Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11237 (40.696457,-73.911751)
Latitude: 40.697185
Longitude: -73.91117
Phone number: 718-381-7100
Fax number: 718-381-0223
School email: [email protected]
Website: www.aelnyc.org
Subway lines near the school: L, M to Myrtle-Wyckoff Avs
Bus lines near the school: B13, B20, B26, B38, B52, B54, B60, M Shuttle Bus, Q55, Q58
Hotels near Academy for Excellence in Leadership
We conduct student-driven classrooms, where students collaborate with one another on authentic, real-world tasks using technology.
We offer AVID (Advancement via Individual Determination), a college readiness program that helps students develop skills to be successful in college.
As part of AVID, all of our classes focus on building skills in writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading.
In their junior or senior year, students can earn credit teaching a class to ninth graders as Peer Leaders via Peer Group Connections (PGC) training.
Students can earn up to 18 college credits through Advanced Placement AND up to 12 college credits via College Now classes - a full year of credits.