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Enrollment
919
Combined
STATE 544
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1·NCES 360105406295
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1
70 TOMPKINS AVE-2ND FL, BROOKLYN, NY 11206 · (718) 635-3294 · Kings County
GRADES KG–11COMBINED11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL919 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New York public K-12 schools
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public K-12 schools
Student : Teacher
,
Teacher data unavailable
STATE 8.7:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
69%
632 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other combined schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 128 | 14% |
| Grade 1 | 134 | 15% |
| Grade 5 | 101 | 11% |
| Grade 6 | 151 | 16% |
| Grade 7 | 105 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 80 | 9% |
| Grade 9 | 93 | 10% |
| Grade 10 | 53 | 6% |
| Grade 11 | 73 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (128) is 60% larger than its 8th grade class (80).
Student demographics
56%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
93.8%
NY avg 58.3% . +5.3pp since 2023
Math
98.8%
NY avg 57.4% . +3.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 99 of 100 do math at grade level. Across all New York schools, those numbers are about 58 and 57. Reading and writing scores are up about 5 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 93.8% | 98.8% |
| 2023-24 | 88.5% | 95.8% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
92.0%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
49.7%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+42.3pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 50% typical for New York schools with a similar share of low-income students. BeatsExpectations ranks schools against others at the same poverty level, not by raw scores, so a school can post high scores and still fall short of its prediction, or post lower scores and still beat it. This school clears its prediction by about 42 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1's state test result (92.0% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 this school | 919 | 68.8% | 92.0% |
| SCHOOL 58-WORLD OF INQUIRY SCHOOL ROCHESTER | 896 | 73.7% | 13.9% |
| CITIZENSHIP AND SCIENCE ACADEMY OF SYRACUSE CHARTER SCHOOL SYRACUSE | 764 | 82.1% | 22.0% |
| HARLEM PREP CHARTER SCHOOL NEW YORK | 647 | 89.3% | 39.6% |
| UNCOMMON CROWN HEIGHTS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 513 | 85.2% | 58.9% |
| UNCOMMON EXCELLENCE BOYS CHARTER SCHOOL NYC BROOKLYN | 415 | 86.3% | 59.8% |
Matched among New York K-12 schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 ranks
Among K-12 schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.0% | #3 of 101 | #1 of 6 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.8% | #1 of 101 ▲ 4 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 93.8% | #4 of 101 ▲ 1 | #1 of 6 no change |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 919 | #11 of 192 | #2 of 15 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 56.0% | #49 of 152 | #10 of 15 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 68.8% | #52 of 136 | #15 of 15 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +32.8% | #19 of 59 | #4 of 8 |
Ranked against other public K-12 schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
919
+167 (+22%) vs 2020
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 919 | N/A | N/A | 69% (632) |
| 2023-24 | 816 | N/A | N/A | 66% (541) |
| 2022-23 | 482 | N/A | N/A | 63% (304) |
| 2020-21 | 752 | N/A | N/A | 83% (627) |
| 2017-18 | 692 | 50.7 | 13.7:1 | 76% (525) |
| 2015-16 | 474 | 33 | 14.4:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1.
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 is a public high-enrollment combined-grade school in BROOKLYN, New York. School enrollment was 919 students in 2024-25, in kindergarten through 11. The average among combined schools in New York is roughly 544 students; this school is 69% above that.
The school serves as its own district in federal records.
Black students make up a majority at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1, at 61%. Smaller groups are 26% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 3% White, and 3% multiracial. For comparison, the population of Kings County is roughly 28% Black. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1's diversity index is 56%, against a US figure of 70%.
The school counts 632 students as eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, or 69%. Among public schools in Kings County, the average eligibility rate is 79%.
allk12 grades SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 an A+. The grade compares the school only with New York public K-12 schools, because each state gives its own test.
The BeatsExpectations model predicts 49.7% for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1, given its share of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The actual figure is 92.0%. The 42.3-point gap ranks in the top 10% of New York schools.
Kings County census figures show that the median household income is $80,263, a bachelor's degree or higher is held by about 42% of adults, and the poverty rate is about 15%. There are 583 public schools in Kings County, enrolling about 291,697 students in all.
The nearest other public school, PS 368, is less than a tenth of a mile away. There are at least 8 more public schools inside five miles. By average proficiency, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 is 1st among 7 schools close by.
In the federal locale system, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 is coded City: Large, for schools inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. It is a charter school, open to the public and funded by taxpayers.
Federal data show a 22% enrollment increase, from 752 in 2020-21 to 919 in 2024-25.
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Kings County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,631,580
Census ACS
Median income
$80,263
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
42%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
15%
Below federal line
Schools in county
583
291,697 students
Quick facts
Related schools
Other schools in BROOKLYN
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- JAMES MADISON HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,983 students
- MIDWOOD HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,657 students
- EDWARD R MURROW HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,503 students
- FRANKLIN DELANO ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 3,403 students
Nearby schools
- PS 3680.0 mi · 236
- PS 297 ABRAHAM STOCKTON0.1 mi · 196
- PS 23 CARTER G WOODSON0.2 mi · 230
- BROOKLYN CHARTER SCHOOL (THE)0.2 mi · 203
- PS 59 THE DAWN BEST SCHOOL0.2 mi · 265
- SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BED STUY 20.2 mi · 271
Frequently asked questions
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1What is the total enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 enrolls approximately 919 students in grades KG-11.
What age range does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 serves students from grade KG through grade 11.
What is the student diversity at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1?
Student demographics at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 are roughly 3% White, 26% Hispanic, 61% Black, 5% Asian, 3% Two or more.
What district is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 in?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 is part of SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1.
Where is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 located?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BED STUY 1 is located at 70 TOMPKINS AVE-2ND FL, BROOKLYN, NY 11206.
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