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SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 92 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 52% 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 41 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL is one of the modestly sized elementary schools in BROOKLYN, New York, one of the schools within SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL, with 260 students on its rolls from grades K through 4. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL sits 41% leaner than that benchmark.
Operationally, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL answers to SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.
Looking at the student body, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL shows that the largest single group is Black at 41%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest reads as 26% Hispanic, 14% White, 13% Asian, 5% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews visibly more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, About 63% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. That share is noticeably below Kings County's rate of about 79%.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL 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 51.8%; this one delivers 93.0%, a residual of +41.2 points.
In the surrounding community, ACS estimates for Kings County put median household income runs about $80,263, about 42% of the adult population holds a bachelor's degree or above, and the poverty rate sits near 15%. In all, Kings County runs 583 public schools (combined enrollment of about 291,697 students), of which SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL is one.
The closest other public school is DIGITAL ARTS AND CINEMA TECHNOLOGY HIGH SCHOOL, roughly 0.0 miles away. 8 of the 8 nearest public schools sit inside a five-mile radius. Ranking that nearby cluster on reported proficiency puts SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL at 1st of 7; the average score across the group is 63.5%.
The school occupies a city-core site. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL operates as a public charter school, meaning it is publicly funded but governed independently of the surrounding district's traditional schools.
Five-year trend. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-COBBLE HILL's enrollment has declined 41% since 2018, when it stood at 442 (now 260). White enrollment moved from 25% to 14% across the same window.
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