SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 94 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 19 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 1 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 43% 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%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 is a mid-sized elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, run under SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1. The school caters to 513 students in grades K through 7.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 sits inside SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1, the local public-school operator responsible for the campus.
In terms of who attends, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 logs that Black students make up the majority at 65%. Other groups include 29% Hispanic, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.
Looking at school resources, Roughly 86% of students at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.
After controlling for student poverty, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 sits in the top 10% of New York schools after the BeatsExpectations adjustment. Predicted proficiency for the school's FRL share is roughly 43.5%; actual is 85.5%, +42.1 points clear of the demographic baseline.
Across the wider county, community-level numbers for Bronx County indicate median household income runs about $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: URBAN ASSEMBLY BRONX ACADEMY OF LETTERS (THE), around 0.0 miles off. Within five miles, there are 8 other public schools. On composite proficiency, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, higher than the nearby-schools average of 41.9%.
The campus sits in a city-core setting. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 1 has contracted 27%, going from 702 students in 2018 to 513 in 2025. Over the same period, the Hispanic share ticked down from 42% to 29%.
Within the allk12 community for this school, recent activity here tends to focus on classroom updates, athletics, and weather closures. The community welcomes input from current and former families.
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