SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS

Set in BROOKLYN, New York, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS is a roomy elementary campus, one of the schools within SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS. It enrolls 786 students across grades K through 8. Enrollment runs roughly 77% bigger than the state mean of about 443.

Operationally, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS answers to SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS, which sets policy, hires staff, and reports enrollment to the state.

Demographically, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS lists that nearly all students (84%) are Black; the rest looks like 9% Hispanic, 2% multiracial. By comparison, Kings County as a whole is about 28% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the income-and-resources front, An estimated 79% of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch, which schools and policymakers use as a rough income-mix signal.

On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS 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 45.8%; this one delivers 93.4%, a residual of +47.6 points.

Across the wider county, census data for Kings County shows the typical household earns roughly $80,263 per year, 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-CROWN HEIGHTS is one.

PS 161 CROWN (THE) is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.0 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS. On composite proficiency, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 58.9%.

The campus sits in a high-density setting. As a public charter, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Trend over the last 7 years. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-CROWN HEIGHTS has ticked up 36%, going from 578 students in 2018 to 786 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment edged down from 90% to 84% over that span.

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