SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD

SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD, a mid-sized elementary-level community in BRONX, New York, overseen by SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD, hosts 381 students, covering grades K through 2.

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

Demographically, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD logs that the largest single group is Black at 47%, but no single group is in the majority; the rest looks like 46% Hispanic, 3% White, 2% Asian. By comparison, Bronx County as a whole is about 33% Black, so the school skews meaningfully more Black than its surroundings.

On the resource side, About 88% of enrolled students meet the income threshold for free or reduced-price lunch, often used as a Title I proxy.

Adjusting for the school's free-and-reduced-lunch share, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD 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 42.8%; SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD posts 88.5%, +45.8 points above that line.

In the broader community, the surrounding county (Bronx County) logs that median household income runs about $48,676, 22% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 23%. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD is one of 472 public schools in Bronx County (combined enrollment of about 202,028 students).

Nearest neighbor: PS 56 NORWOOD HEIGHTS, around 0.1 miles off. 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 - NORWOOD at 1st of 9; the average score across the group is 41.2%.

The school occupies a downtown site. As a public charter, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD runs on public funding but with greater curricular and operational autonomy than a typical district school.

Over the past 7-year window. Looking back 7 years, enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - NORWOOD has expanded 166%, going from 143 students in 2018 to 381 in 2025. The Black share of enrollment shrank from 59% to 47% over that span.

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