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What's the most underrated thing about SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA that outsiders don't know?
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Enrollment
553
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA·NCES 360114106598
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA
120-27 141ST ST, JAMAICA, NY 11436 · (718) 704-1441 · Queens County
GRADES KG–04ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL553 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 99% of New York public elementary schools
- 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
Student : Teacher
,
Teacher data unavailable
STATE 12.8:1
Free / Reduced Lunch
72%
398 students
STATE 58%
Community
1
0 members
Enrollment and student:teacher ratio compared against other elementary schools. Free/Reduced Lunch and demographics compared against all schools.
Enrollment by grade, 2024-25
| Grade | Students | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Kindergarten | 133 | 24% |
| Grade 1 | 102 | 18% |
| Grade 2 | 112 | 20% |
| Grade 3 | 97 | 18% |
| Grade 4 | 109 | 20% |
This year's kindergarten class (133) is 22% larger than its 4th grade class (109).
Student demographics
61%Diversity index
The chance that two students picked at random belong to different racial or ethnic groups.
STATE 72% · US 70%
Student head counts by race/ethnicity from federal NCES enrollment data. District, state, and US figures are each group's share of all public school students in that area (US excludes territories). Very small groups may be suppressed in the source, so categories do not always sum exactly to total enrollment.
Gender split
Test scores
NYS Assessments 2024-25 . % Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4)English Language Arts
95.0%
NY avg 58.3% . +14.0pp since 2023
Math
99.0%
NY avg 57.4% . +0.0pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 95 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 99 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 14 points since 2023, while math scores have held steady.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 95.0% | 99.0% |
| 2023-24 | 81.0% | 99.0% |
% Proficient (Level 3 + Level 4), all students and all tested grades.
Source: NYS Assessments. All students, all grades. See all years and grades →
BeatsExpectations
Demographically-adjusted score · methodologyTier
OUTPERFORMING
Top 10% of NY schools after controlling for student poverty
Actual proficiency
93.6%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
48.5%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+45.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 94% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 49% 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 45 points, placing it in New York's top 10%.
BeatsExpectations runs a per-state regression of proficiency on free/reduced-lunch share, then scores each school by residual. How this is calculated →
Schools most like SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA's state test result (93.6% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA this school | 553 | 72.0% | 93.6% |
| BROOKLYN DREAMS CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 489 | 77.9% | 50.4% |
| PS/IS 208 BELLEROSE | 605 | 63.1% | 57.1% |
| PS 203 FLOYD BENNETT SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 514 | 81.3% | 45.1% |
| PS 153 HELEN KELLER BRONX | 440 | 72.5% | 61.1% |
| PS/MS 138 SUNRISE ROSEDALE | 554 | 79.1% | 36.7% |
Matched among New York elementary schools on enrollment, the share of students from low-income families (eligible for free or reduced-price lunch), and racial and ethnic makeup. Proficient is the average share of students meeting the state standard across all of the school's state tests in 2023-24 and 2024-25, the same combined score our test-score rankings use. Online schools and schools serving specialized populations are not matched.
Where SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 93.6% | #16 of 2,335 | #3 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 99.0% | #24 of 2,342 ▲ 1 | #2 of 219 ▼ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 95.0% | #27 of 2,343 ▲ 70 | #3 of 220 ▲ 8 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 553 | #622 of 2,585 | #117 of 230 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 61.1% | #664 of 2,388 | #100 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 72.0% | #947 of 2,534 | #151 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +139.4% | #8 of 606 | #5 of 51 |
Ranked against other public elementary schools. Online schools are left out of every list, and test-score lists leave out schools that serve specialized populations. Each rank links to the full list. Arrows under a test-score rank show places moved since the prior test year, among schools tested both years.
4-year change
SY 2020-21 vs SY 2024-25Enrollment
553
+108 (+24%) vs 2020
Source: NCES Common Core of Data
Enrollment and staffing by year
| School year | Students | Teachers (FTE) | Students per teacher | Free and reduced lunch |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 553 | N/A | N/A | 72% (398) |
| 2023-24 | 493 | N/A | N/A | 67% (331) |
| 2022-23 | 466 | N/A | N/A | 62% (287) |
| 2020-21 | 445 | N/A | N/A | 81% (361) |
| 2017-18 | 231 | 13 | 17.8:1 | 68% (156) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA.
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA is a mid-sized elementary school with an address in JAMAICA, New York. It reports enrollment of 553 students in kindergarten through 4. The school is 25% bigger than the average for elementary schools in New York.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
About 58% of the student body at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA is Black. Enrollment also includes 16% Hispanic, 14% Asian, 6% Native American, and 3% White. Among people living in Queens County, the Black share is about 17%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 61%.
In all, 72% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.
On the allk12 Grade, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA lands at A+, ahead of 99% of New York public elementary schools.
Compared with New York schools that have similar shares of low-income students, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA does better than predicted by 45.1 points. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 93.6%; the prediction is 48.5%.
American Community Survey estimates for Queens County show that the median household earns about $86,136 a year, the share of adults with a bachelor's degree or higher is 36%, and about 10% of people live in poverty. Queens County has 392 public schools with about 268,205 students, including SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA.
PS 123 is about 0.3 miles away, making it the nearest public school. Other public schools within five miles number at least 8. Compared with its nearest neighbors, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA ranks 1st of 8 on average proficiency.
Federal data place SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA in the City: Large locale, which means it is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Federal records list SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA as a charter school.
In 2020-21, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA enrolled 445 students. By 2024-25, that number had grown to 553.
This page is set up for the SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA community to discuss homework, tutoring, and testing dates. Members of the school community can share what they know.
Queens County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
2,323,052
Census ACS
Median income
$86,136
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
36%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
10%
Below federal line
Schools in county
392
268,205 students
Quick facts
Related schools
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- JHS 217 ROBERT A VAN WYCKMiddle · 1,265 students
- PS 95 EASTWOODElementary · 1,103 students
- PS 50 TALFOURD LAWN ELEMENTARY SCHOOLElementary · 904 students
- GROWING UP GREEN CHARTER SCHOOL IIElementary · 810 students
Nearby schools
- PS 1230.3 mi · 596
- PS 960.4 mi · 310
- PS 223 LYNDON B JOHNSON0.5 mi · 571
- QUEENS TRANSITION CENTER0.6 mi · 461
- PS 1550.6 mi · 497
- PS 45 CLARENCE WITHERSPOON0.6 mi · 464
Frequently asked questions
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICAHow many students attend SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA enrolls approximately 553 students in grades KG-04.
What age range does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA serves students from grade KG through grade 04.
What is the student diversity at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA?
Student demographics at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA are roughly 3% White, 16% Hispanic, 58% Black, 14% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA in?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA is part of SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA.
Where is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA located?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-SOUTH JAMAICA is located at 120-27 141ST ST, JAMAICA, NY 11436.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.