The New American Academy is a Crown Heights, Brooklyn, New York public school, PS 770, which opened in the fall of 2010.
[3][5][6] The New American Academy puts sixty children in a single, large classroom.
[7] The New American Academy has four teachers with sixty students (for a 15:1 ratio) in one classroom.
[8] The New York City Department of Education withdrew a proposal to expand The New American Academy with a middle school after less than ten percent of The New American Academy's first class of third-graders passed state examinations in the spring of 2013 before a vote by the Panel for Educational Policy on October 30, 2013.
[7] As of November 4, 2013, more than half of The New American Academy's first class (the class of 2010–2011) of forty first-graders were no longer enrolled or failed to be promoted to the fourth grade, city statistics show.