Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 3
Grades K-5 · 787 Lafayette Avenue · Brooklyn
Kamptary Williams/Marina Raafat, Principal · 718-859-8400
About
Success Academy Charter School - Bed Stuy 3 is an elementary school in Brooklyn serving students from kindergarten through fifth grade. It stands out for its exceptional academic performance, with ELA proficiency at 94% and Math proficiency at 95%, both well above citywide medians and near the highest levels across New York City schools. The school maintains a notably positive and safe environment, reflected in a 0.0% suspension rate. Parents express high satisfaction, with a 100% positive response rate on recent surveys, often praising the dedicated teachers and the quality of education their children receive. The school is part of the Success Academy network, known for its rigorous academic curriculum and high expectations, which aims to foster critical thinking and a love of learning. While the network has a reputation for strict discipline, this specific school demonstrates strong academic outcomes alongside a very low suspension rate. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic, and the school serves a diverse community.
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
94%
Math proficiency
95%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2023-2024). Survey topics are the DOE’s framework measures (each the average favorable response across its questions; expand a topic to see them and the citywide average); the dimension scores themselves are no longer in the public data file.[3]
Operational health
Attendance
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Financials
[8]What this school has to spend, and what it spends it on. Spending is not a measure of quality. Schools serving more students with higher needs receive more money.
Charter schools manage their own budgets rather than receiving a school allocation from the DOE, so the staffing and supplies breakdown the DOE publishes for district schools is not published for this school.
Spending
Total spend
$9.1MStudents: 494
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.