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SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST
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NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodology7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST
As a high-enrollment elementary-level community in BROOKLYN, New York, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST educates 721 students from grades K through 4, part of SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST sits 63% bigger than that benchmark.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST sits inside SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
On the student-mix side, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST reports that the largest single group is White at 54%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest comes out to 31% Asian, 8% Hispanic, 5% Black. That is visibly more White than the county at large, where the share is closer to 38%.
Looking at the economic backdrop, Roughly 65% of students at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a number frequently used as a low-income enrollment indicator. Set against Kings County (around 79%), the school's rate is meaningfully below typical.
Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST ranks in the top 10% of New York public schools. The BeatsExpectations model, a per-state regression of composite proficiency on FRL share, predicts schools with this student profile to land around 51.1%; SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST posts 93.6%, +42.5 points above that line.
Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and roughly 15% of residents live below the federal poverty line. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST is one of 583 public schools in Kings County (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students).
IS 96 SETH LOW is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. On composite proficiency, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 67.1%.
Geographically, the school is in a metropolitan area. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BENSONHURST has grew 46%, going from 494 students in 2018 to 721 in 2025. Over the same period, the Asian share grew from 14% to 31%.
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