SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS
- A+Test scores Share of students meeting the state standard in reading, math, and other tested subjects, 2023-24 and 2024-25.
- A+Beats expectations How far test scores land above or below what the share of low-income students predicts for a school in this state.
- ·Three-year trend Not available for this school, so the grade uses the other parts.
Grades compare a school only with schools in the same state, because every state gives its own test. How grades work · Top-graded New York public elementary schools
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 48 | 22% |
| Grade 1 | 39 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 31 | 14% |
| Grade 3 | 44 | 20% |
| Grade 4 | 58 | 26% |
This year's kindergarten class (48) is 17% smaller than its 4th grade class (58).
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 99 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 27 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 99.0% | 100.0% |
| 2023-24 | 72.0% | 98.0% |
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 92% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 47% 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 46 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
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SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS's state test result (92.3% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS this school | 220 | 76.8% | 92.3% |
| CULTURAL ARTS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL AT SPRING CREEK BROOKLYN | 221 | 78.7% | 40.5% |
| NEW AMERICAN ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL (THE) BROOKLYN | 247 | 77.3% | 59.0% |
| LITTLE WATER PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL POUGHKEEPSIE | 202 | 73.3% | 64.0% |
| DESTINE PREPARATORY CHARTER SCHOOL SCHENECTADY | 213 | 70.4% | 44.5% |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL SAINT ALBANS | 256 | 82.8% | 65.5% |
Where SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Kings County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 92.3% | #22 of 2,335 | #6 of 290 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 100% | #8 of 2,342 ▲ 24 | #4 of 290 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #7 of 2,343 ▲ 214 | #2 of 290 ▲ 32 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 220 | #2,320 of 2,585 | #249 of 306 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 34.8% | #1,764 of 2,388 | #217 of 263 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 76.8% | #858 of 2,534 | #231 of 300 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked steepest decline first | -58.4% | #11 of 1,757 | #4 of 225 |
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 220 | N/A | N/A | 77% (169) |
| 2023-24 | 231 | N/A | N/A | 73% (168) |
| 2022-23 | 275 | N/A | N/A | 71% (195) |
| 2020-21 | 628 | N/A | N/A | 79% (498) |
| 2017-18 | 529 | 43.8 | 12.1:1 | 73% (386) |
| 2015-16 | 334 | 19 | 17.6:1 | 0% (0) |
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS
Students in BROOKLYN, New York, attend SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS, a small elementary school. The school offers kindergarten through 4 and enrolls 220 students. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 50% below average.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS operates as its own local education agency.
At SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS, 80% of students are Black. After that, the student body is 13% Hispanic and 3% multiracial. Census figures show Kings County is about 28% Black. On the diversity index, which measures the chance that two random students are from different groups, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS scores 35%.
The school has 77% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The figure for public schools in Kings County is close, at 79%.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS earns an A+ on the allk12 Grade, which blends test scores, results against poverty-based expectations, and the three-year trend. It scored higher than 98% of New York public elementary schools.
On a poverty-adjusted basis, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS is in the top 10% of New York schools: 92.3% actual against 46.7% predicted.
In Kings County, home to about 2,631,580 people, median household income comes to about $80,263, 42% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 15% of people live in poverty. There are 583 public schools in the county, enrolling about 291,697, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS among them.
Straight-line distance to the nearest public school, PS 138, is less than a tenth of a mile. Around the school, at least 8 other public schools are within five miles. Of the 9 nearby schools with scores, including this one, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS is 1st on average proficiency.
Federal records code the school's setting as City: Large. As a charter school, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS is publicly funded and operates under a charter.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-PROSPECT HEIGHTS reported 628 students in 2020-21 and 220 in 2024-25. Changes that large sometimes follow a school adding or dropping grades, so the two figures may not cover the same grades.
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