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Enrollment
998
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS·NCES 360111806486
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
132-55 RIDGEDALE ST-3RD FL, SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, NY 11413 · (347) 602-4335 · Queens County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL998 STUDENTS
A+
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Scored higher than 98% 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
56%
560 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 | 99 | 10% |
| Grade 1 | 106 | 11% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 10% |
| Grade 3 | 102 | 10% |
| Grade 4 | 100 | 10% |
| Grade 5 | 155 | 16% |
| Grade 6 | 143 | 14% |
| Grade 7 | 107 | 11% |
| Grade 8 | 82 | 8% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (99) is 21% larger than its 8th grade class (82).
Student demographics
24%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
92.6%
NY avg 58.3% . +8.3pp since 2023
Math
97.3%
NY avg 57.4% . +2.6pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 93 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 97 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 8 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 3 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 92.6% | 97.3% |
| 2023-24 | 84.3% | 94.7% |
% 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
90.4%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
54.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+36.1pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 90% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 54% 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 36 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 - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS's state test result (90.4% proficient) is higher than 5 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS this school | 998 | 56.1% | 90.4% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - ROSEDALE ROSEDALE | 1,124 | 61.7% | 86.1% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - BERGEN BEACH BROOKLYN | 977 | 64.3% | 87.2% |
| MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL SPRINGFIELD GARDENS | 732 | 67.6% | 52.5% |
| RIVERTON STREET CHARTER SCHOOL SAINT ALBANS | 1,003 | 78.1% | 66.9% |
| CANARSIE ASCEND CHARTER SCHOOL BROOKLYN | 857 | 79.9% | 64.6% |
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 - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In Queens County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 90.4% | #36 of 2,335 | #6 of 220 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 97.3% | #37 of 2,342 ▲ 31 | #5 of 219 ▲ 1 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 92.6% | #51 of 2,343 ▲ 8 | #8 of 220 ▼ 3 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 998 | #44 of 2,585 | #20 of 230 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 23.6% | #2,029 of 2,388 | #211 of 225 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 56.1% | #1,244 of 2,534 | #198 of 230 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +108.4% | #17 of 606 | #8 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
998
+68 (+7%) 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 | 998 | N/A | N/A | 56% (560) |
| 2023-24 | 944 | N/A | N/A | 54% (507) |
| 2022-23 | 895 | N/A | N/A | 49% (440) |
| 2020-21 | 930 | N/A | N/A | 74% (684) |
| 2017-18 | 479 | 26.4 | 18.1:1 | 73% (349) |
| 2015-16 | 242 | 12 | 20.2:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS.
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS is a high-enrollment elementary school in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, New York, one of the schools in SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS. Students in kindergarten through 8 make up the school's enrollment of 998 students. Elementary schools in New York average about 443 students, which makes this school 125% above average.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS is not part of a larger district; federal data list it as its own local education agency.
By race and ethnicity, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS is 87% Black. The next largest groups are 5% Hispanic and 3% Native American. The school's Black share is 70 points above the 17% share among Queens County residents. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 24%.
Income data for the school show 56% of students eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. Across public schools in Queens County, the average is 77%.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS 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.
The allk12 BeatsExpectations score for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS is +36.1 points, in the top 10% of New York. Its average proficiency rate across its state test results is 90.4%, and the predicted rate is 54.4%.
In Queens County, home to about 2,323,052 people, median household income comes to about $86,136, 36% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 10% of people live in poverty. There are 392 public schools in the county, enrolling about 268,205, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS among them.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, is the closest to SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS. Inside a five-mile radius, there are at least 8 other public schools. The nearest schools with test data average 54.1%, lower than SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS's 90.4%.
NCES describes the area around SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS as City: Large, meaning inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS operates as a charter school, which is publicly funded and run under a charter.
A 7% rise took enrollment from 930 in 2020-21 to 998 in 2024-25.
Use the discussion section to ask about homework, tutoring, and testing dates at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS. You can also rate the school on this page.
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
Other schools in SPRINGFIELD GARDENS
- MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLElementary · 732 students
- PREPARATORY ACADEMY FOR WRITERS: A COLLEGE BOARD SCHOOLHigh · 521 students
- EXCELSIOR PREPARATORY HIGH SCHOOLHigh · 480 students
- GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER HIGH SCHOOL FOR THE SCIENCESHigh · 421 students
- IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENSMiddle · 401 students
- PS 181 BROOKFIELDElementary · 340 students
Nearby schools
- IS 59 SPRINGFIELD GARDENS0.0 mi · 401
- PS 132 RALPH BUNCHE0.2 mi · 283
- PS 15 JACKIE ROBINSON0.4 mi · 294
- MERRICK ACADEMY-QUEENS PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL0.4 mi · 732
- CYNTHIA JENKINS SCHOOL0.5 mi · 297
- ACHIEVEMENT FIRST LEGACY CHARTER SCHOOL0.7 mi · 256
Frequently asked questions
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENSWhat is the total enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS enrolls approximately 998 students in grades KG-08.
What grades does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS serves grades KG-08.
What is the racial breakdown of students at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS?
At SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS, the student body is approximately 1% White, 5% Hispanic, 87% Black, 2% Asian, 2% Two or more.
What district is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS in?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS is part of SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS.
What county does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL - SPRINGFIELD GARDENS serves Queens County in NY.
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