The first graduating class at the Academy of Business and Community Development will likely be its last.
Founded under the Bloomberg administration with four classes of sixth-graders in 2005, the Bedford-Stuyvesant school has had a bumpy road all along.
After just two years, the all-male school was slapped with a C grade for its students’ low scores on state math and reading tests.
Last year, the founding principal was replaced after its middle-school grades received a D rating.
And the current class of 16 seniors started as a ninth-grade class of 54 students in 2008 — a decrease that the Department of Education attributed in part to 21 students transferring out over three years.
Unlike most schools proposed to phase out gradually, ABCD would simply shut down in June and force current students to enroll elsewhere.