Success Academy Charter School - Hell's Kitchen
- 439 West 49 Street, Manhattan
- Grades K-5
- William (Will) Abbott, Principal
- 646-790-2153
About
Success Academy Charter School - Hell's Kitchen serves students in grades K-5. The school demonstrates strong academic outcomes, with 93.0 percent of students achieving proficiency in English Language Arts, which is well above the citywide 75th percentile. In Mathematics, 98.0 percent of students achieved proficiency, also well above the citywide 75th percentile. The school's Economic Need Index is 67.0 percent, which is near the citywide 25th percentile, indicating a lower proportion of students facing economic hardship compared to many city schools. The student population includes 20.0 percent English Language Learners and 18.0 percent of students with Individualized Education Programs. The school reported a 0.0 percent suspension rate. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
93%
Math proficiency
98%
Proficiency rates are from the Grade 3–8 NYS state test (school-level).
Attendance rate
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Avg class size (general ed)
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Avg class size (ICT)
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Community & climate
Demographics, attendance, school survey results, and DOE quality ratings.
Quality signals
NYC School Survey, 2025-26
Overall positive % is averaged across every Pos/Neg survey question per respondent group (school year 2025-2026). 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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Chronic absenteeism
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Suspension rate
0%
Student body
Race / ethnicity[4]
- Asian 23%
- Black 25%
- Hispanic 35%
- White 11%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 50%
- Male 50%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
455
Economic Need Index
67%
Free / reduced lunch
66%
English learners
20%
Students with IEPs
18%
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
$7.4MStudents: 484
12th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$15,215
0th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.