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CHARTER vs DISTRICT · NEW YORK

New York charter schools, ranked

Every New York charter with a BeatsExpectations score, best to worst, against what its student demographics predict.

Charters ranked
60
with a BeatsExpectations score
Charter sector vs district
+12.6 pp
charters lead on average
Top charter
+54.4 pp
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER
NY CHARTER SCHOOLS RANKED BY BEATSEXPECTATIONS
SchoolCity% FRL% ProficientBeats (pp) ↓
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPERBRONX92.1%95.5%54.4
SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL IIIBRONX97.3%92.7%53.5
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 2NEW YORK88.3%94.8%52.2
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BUSHWICKBROOKLYN77.8%97.8%51.4
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX 4BRONX83.2%95.5%51.1
SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL IVBRONX91.2%91.9%50.5
SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOL IIBRONX91.5%90.7%49.4
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 4BRONX74.5%96.6%49
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 2BRONX89.3%90.8%48.6
SOUTH BRONX CLASSICAL CHARTER SCHOOLBRONX87.4%91.4%48.5
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCEBRONX91.1%89.8%48.3
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTSBROOKLYN79.4%93.4%47.6
BROWNSVILLE COLLEGIATE CHARTER SCHOOLBROOKLYN87.1%90.0%47.1
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 2BRONX87.9%89.7%47
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 1BRONX89.1%89.1%46.9
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY WEST CHARTER SCHOOLNEW YORK89.0%88.4%46.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOODBRONX87.7%88.5%45.8
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTSBROOKLYN76.8%92.3%45.5
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICAJAMAICA72.0%93.6%45.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 3NEW YORK83.3%89.3%45
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HELL'S KITCHENNEW YORK65.1%96.0%44.9
ACADEMIC LEADERSHIP CHARTER SCHOOLBRONX95.3%83.5%43.5
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 5NEW YORK81.9%88.4%43.5
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURSTBROOKLYN64.9%93.6%42.5
ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL -SOUTH BRONXBRONX89.5%84.5%42.4
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 2BROOKLYN80.4%87.8%42.3
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 3BROOKLYN74.3%90.0%42.3
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1BROOKLYN68.8%92.0%42.3
ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX TREMONT PARKBRONX84.6%86.1%42.2
ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - INWOODNEW YORK80.9%87.4%42.2
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1BRONX85.8%85.5%42.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 4NEW YORK83.4%86.1%41.8
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-WILLIAMSBURGBROOKLYN70.4%90.8%41.7
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 3BRONX81.0%86.9%41.7
ZETA CHARTER SCHOOL - BRONX MOUNT EDENBRONX88.8%83.9%41.6
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILLBROOKLYN63.1%93.0%41.2
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 5BRONX92.7%81.9%41
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UPPER WESTNEW YORK56.3%94.9%40.6
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 6BRONX89.0%82.3%40.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARENEW YORK58.8%93.3%39.9
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FLATBUSHBROOKLYN81.9%84.6%39.8
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HUDSON YARDSNEW YORK64.4%90.9%39.6
BEDFORD STUYVESANT NEW BEGINNINGS CHARTER SCHOOLBROOKLYN96.5%78.5%39
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - WASHINGTON HEIGHTSNEW YORK77.6%85.3%38.8
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 2BRONX66.4%89.3%38.7
PENINSULA PREPARATORY ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLFAR ROCKAWAY74.4%85.3%37.6
PHAROS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLBRONX90.8%77.8%36.2
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-FAR ROCKAWAYFAR ROCKAWAY77.1%82.8%36.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENSSPRINGFIELD GARDENS56.1%90.4%36.1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BERGEN BEACHBROOKLYN64.3%87.2%35.9
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY EAST CHARTER SCHOOLNEW YORK90.3%77.2%35.4
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 3BRONX71.4%84.0%35.3
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-HARLEM 1NEW YORK67.8%84.3%34.2
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALEROSEDALE61.7%86.1%33.8
HARLEM VILLAGE ACADEMY NORTH CHARTER SCHOOLNEW YORK87.6%76.0%33.2
KIPP BEYOND CHARTER SCHOOLNEW YORK79.6%78.3%32.5
CENTRAL QUEENS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOLELMHURST78.2%77.6%31.4
ICAHN CHARTER SCHOOL 5BRONX72.1%79.7%31.3
BRONX CHARTER SCHOOL FOR EXCELLENCE 4BRONX81.6%75.6%30.6
CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOLBROOKLYN89.8%72.2%30.2
60 of 60 rows · Every scored charter in NY (top 60 by residual), best to worst. "Beats" is the percentage-point gap between a school's actual proficiency and what the per-state regression predicts from its FRL share. Sort ascending to see the state's weakest charters. Worst charter shown: CENTRAL BROOKLYN ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL (+30.2 pp).↓ Download charter-vs-district-by-state-ny.csv

What "Beats" means here

Ranking charter schools by raw proficiency mostly ranks them by the families they enroll. To compare a charter to the district schools it actually competes with, we use BeatsExpectations: a per-state regression of school proficiency on free-and-reduced-lunch share. It predicts the proficiency a school "should" post given its poverty profile, and the residual, in percentage points, is how far above or below that line the school actually lands. A charter at +15 is beating its demographics; one at -15 is trailing them. The table above ranks every scored New York charter on that residual. Sort ascending to see the weakest performers.

How New York charters compare to district schools

The headline stat is the charter sector's average residual minus the district sector's. A positive number means New York charters, on average, beat their demographics by more than the state's district schools do; a negative number means they trail. The national picture is genuinely mixed: charters beat district schools handily in some states (New York is the clearest case) and trail them badly in others (Ohio and Pennsylvania, where troubled cyber-charter sectors drag the average down). See the national report for every state side by side.

Limits

BeatsExpectations controls for poverty, but not for everything that separates charters from district schools: charters can have application and lottery processes, different special-education and English-learner shares, and different mid-year attrition. A high residual is strong evidence a school is doing something right, but it is not proof the same students would have done worse down the street. Treat this as the fairest single comparison available from public data, not a settled verdict on school choice.

Source data

NCES Common Core of Data 2024-25 (charter flag, FRL share, enrollment) and New York's native state assessment for the most recent available year. The BeatsExpectations regression is recomputed after every data refresh.

HOW TO CITE THIS REPORT

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allk12 (2026). "New York charter schools, ranked by BeatsExpectations." Retrieved from https://allk12.com/reports/charter-vs-district/new-york
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DOWNLOAD THE DATA
↓ charter-vs-district-by-state-ny.csv
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