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SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 91 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 92 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 12 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyWhat this means: About 86% 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 34 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
7-year change
SY 2017-18 vs SY 2024-25About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE
Located at 147-65 249TH ST, in ROSEDALE, New York, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE is a roomy elementary campus that instructs 1,124 students (grades K through 8), one of the schools within SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE. By comparison, New York's public schools average about 443 students each, so SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE sits 154% bigger than that benchmark.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE is the operating authority for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE, handling staffing, calendars, and reporting to the state department of education.
On the student-mix side, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE shows that 78% of the student body identifies as Black. Beyond that, the school shows 9% Hispanic, 5% Asian, 4% multiracial, 2% Native American. By comparison, Queens County as a whole is about 17% Black, so the school skews considerably more Black than its surroundings.
In terms of school funding signals, Around 62% of the student body qualifies for free or reduced-price meals, a commonly cited indicator of low-income enrollment. By comparison, Queens County runs at roughly 77%, so the school's eligibility rate is lower than the surrounding baseline.
On a demographically-adjusted basis, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE 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 52.3%; SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE posts 86.1%, +33.8 points above that line.
In the surrounding community, the surrounding county (Queens County) records that median household earnings sit near $86,136, roughly 36% of adults have completed at least a four-year degree, and census figures put the poverty rate at about 10%. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE is one of 392 public schools in Queens County (combined enrollment of about 268,205 students).
PS 195 WILLIAM HABERLE is the nearest neighboring public school, about 0.3 miles from this campus. Counting just inside five miles, 8 other public schools cluster around SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE. On composite proficiency, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE comes 1st of 9 in the immediate cluster, above the nearby-schools average of 54.4%.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE operates from a city-core location. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE is a charter school, which puts it inside the public-school system but outside the standard district-managed model.
Over the past 7-year window. Over the past 7-year window, the student count increased 123%: 505 students in 2018 compared to 1,124 in 2025. Black enrollment moved from 89% to 78% across the same window.
In the discussion threads here, posts here usually surface around fundraisers, lost-and-found posts, and report-card season. Anyone with firsthand experience at this school can post or comment.
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