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Enrollment
967
Elementary
STATE 443
SCHOOL COMMUNITY·SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE·NCES 360108306374
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE
40 IRVING PL-2ND FL, NEW YORK, NY 10003 · (646) 790-2161 · New York County
GRADES KG–08ELEMENTARY11-CITYCHARTERTITLE IREGULAR SCHOOL967 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
59%
569 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 | 67 | 7% |
| Grade 1 | 94 | 10% |
| Grade 2 | 103 | 11% |
| Grade 3 | 104 | 11% |
| Grade 4 | 90 | 9% |
| Grade 5 | 161 | 17% |
| Grade 6 | 125 | 13% |
| Grade 7 | 120 | 12% |
| Grade 8 | 102 | 11% |
| Ungraded | 1 | 0% |
This year's kindergarten class (67) is 34% smaller than its 8th grade class (102).
Student demographics
76%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
94.5%
NY avg 58.3% . +4.1pp since 2023
Math
98.1%
NY avg 57.4% . +1.7pp since 2023
What this means: On the NYS Assessments, New York's statewide test, about 94 of every 100 students at this school read and write at grade level and about 98 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 4 points since 2023, while math scores are up about 2 points.
NYS Assessments results by year
| School year | English Language Arts | Math |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-25 | 94.5% | 98.1% |
| 2023-24 | 90.4% | 96.5% |
% 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
93.3%
composite math + reading, all grades
Predicted
53.4%
based on NY schools with similar FRL share
Beats by
+39.9pp
above demographic expectation
What this means: About 93% of students here test proficient in math and reading, well above the roughly 53% 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 40 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-UNION SQUARE
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE's state test result (93.3% proficient) is higher than 4 of the 5 schools below with a result.
| School | Students | Low-income | Proficient |
|---|---|---|---|
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE this school | 967 | 58.8% | 93.3% |
| SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UPPER WEST NEW YORK | 1,002 | 56.3% | 94.9% |
| PS 207 ELIZABETH G LEARY BROOKLYN | 918 | 61.1% | 60.3% |
| CLARA H CARLSON SCHOOL ELMONT | 764 | 59.6% | 54.1% |
| JOHN F KENNEDY INTERMEDIATE SCHOOL DEER PARK | 882 | 47.6% | 46.3% |
| SHAW AVENUE SCHOOL VALLEY STREAM | 740 | 56.2% | 61.4% |
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-UNION SQUARE ranks
Among elementary schools| Measure | This school | In New York | In New York County |
|---|---|---|---|
| State test proficiency ranked highest first | 93.3% | #18 of 2,335 | #7 of 154 |
| Math proficiency ranked highest first | 98.1% | #30 of 2,342 ▲ 20 | #9 of 151 ▲ 4 |
| Reading proficiency ranked highest first | 94.5% | #34 of 2,343 ▼ 13 | #6 of 151 ▲ 2 |
| Enrollment ranked largest first | 967 | #56 of 2,585 | #3 of 158 |
| Diversity index ranked most diverse first | 76.0% | #27 of 2,388 | #1 of 133 |
| Free and reduced lunch ranked highest share first | 58.8% | #1,184 of 2,534 | #111 of 155 |
| Enrollment change since 2017-18 ranked fastest growth first | +55.7% | #39 of 606 | #2 of 28 |
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
967
-7 (-1%) 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 | 967 | N/A | N/A | 59% (569) |
| 2023-24 | 1,006 | N/A | N/A | 54% (545) |
| 2022-23 | 993 | N/A | N/A | 49% (488) |
| 2020-21 | 974 | N/A | N/A | 49% (473) |
| 2017-18 | 621 | 49.3 | 12.6:1 | 39% (240) |
| 2015-16 | 350 | 18 | 19.4:1 | 0% (0) |
Source: NCES Common Core of Data. Rows are the federal collections on file for SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE.
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE runs as a large elementary school in NEW YORK, New York. In all, 967 students attend the school in kindergarten through 8. The school is 118% above the average for elementary schools in New York.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE is its own local education agency in federal data.
At SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE, Hispanic students make up the biggest share, 33%. Enrollment also includes 24% Asian, 22% Black, 15% White, and 5% multiracial. Among people living in New York County, the Hispanic share is about 24%. Its diversity index, the chance that two randomly chosen students belong to different racial or ethnic groups, is 76%.
At SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE, 59% of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch in 2024-25. Public schools in New York County average 70%.
On the allk12 Grade, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE lands at A+, ahead of 99% of New York public elementary schools.
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE is 39.9 points above expectations on state tests, given its student poverty level, placing it in the top 10% in New York.
Looking at the county, New York County, the median household earns about $103,931 a year, 64% of adults hold a bachelor's degree or higher, and about 13% of residents live below the federal poverty line. Counting SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE, New York County has 358 public schools.
A public school less than a tenth of a mile away, INTERNATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL AT UNION SQUARE, is the closest to SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE. The count of other public schools within five miles is at least 8. Among its closest neighbors with test data, SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE is 1st of 9 on proficiency.
Locale: City: Large. In NCES terms, the school is inside a principal city with a population of 250,000 or more. Federal records list SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE as a charter school.
Between 2020-21 and 2024-25, enrollment moved from 974 to 967, a small change.
This page is a place to ask questions and share updates about fundraisers, report cards, and school supplies at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE. Members of the school community can share what they know.
New York County at a glance
View full county profilePopulation
1,629,477
Census ACS
Median income
$103,931
Household, ACS
Bachelor's+
64%
Adults 25+
Poverty rate
13%
Below federal line
Schools in county
358
152,104 students
Quick facts
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Frequently asked questions
About SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUAREWhat is the total enrollment at SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE enrolls approximately 967 students in grades KG-08.
What age range does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE serves students from grade KG through grade 08.
How diverse is SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE reports a student body of 15% White, 33% Hispanic, 22% Black, 24% Asian, 5% Two or more.
Who oversees SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE is overseen by SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE in New York County.
What county does SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE serve?
SUCCESS ACADEMY CHARTER SCHOOL-UNION SQUARE serves New York County in NY.
Data sourceSchool profile facts are sourced from the NCES. Community content is posted by allk12 members.