SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 100 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 96% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 41% 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 54 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER
Set in BRONX, New York, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER is a minimally staffed elementary-level community, run under SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER. It teaches 101 students across grades 3 through 5. Enrollment runs roughly 77% smaller than the state mean of about 443.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER is a school of SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER, the district that handles curriculum, staffing, and budget for the campus.
Demographically, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER shows that 50% of students identify as Hispanic, with the remaining enrollment distributed across several groups. The remainder looks like 50% Black.
Looking at school resources, An estimated 92% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER is in the OUTPERFORMING tier of the BeatsExpectations model, which fits a per-state line through proficiency and FRL share. Schools with this campus's poverty mix typically land near 41.1%; this one delivers 95.5%, a residual of +54.4 points.
In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) records that median household income runs about $48,676, about 22% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 23%. Across Bronx County's 472 public schools (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students), SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER is one campus in the mix.
Nearest neighbor: SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 LOWER, around 0.0 miles off. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Among the 8 schools in that immediate cluster with test data (this one included), SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER ranks 1st on composite proficiency, above the local average of 47.8%.
The campus sits in a high-density setting. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-BRONX 5 UPPER operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
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