Success Academy Charter School - Union Square
- 40 IRVING PLACE, Manhattan
- Grades K-12
- Kaleigh Maines/Caitlin Marcoux, Principal
- 646-790-2161
About
Success Academy Charter School - Union Square serves students from kindergarten through 12th grade in Manhattan, with an enrollment of 963 students, which is well above the citywide median. The school demonstrates strong academic performance in state tests for grades 3-8, with 94.0 percent of students achieving ELA proficiency and 96.0 percent achieving math proficiency, both well above the citywide 75th percentile. For high school students, Regents pass rates include 97.0 percent in English, 99.0 percent in Algebra I, and 54.5 percent in Physics. The percentage of students participating in accelerated coursework is 2.0 percent, which is below the citywide 25th percentile. The school's Economic Need Index is 63.0 percent, which is below the citywide median. The percentage of English Language Learners is 7.0 percent, near the citywide 25th percentile, and the percentage of students with Individualized Education Programs is 18.0 percent, at the citywide 25th percentile. The suspension rate is 0.0 percent. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
94%
Math proficiency
96%
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 24%
- Black 23%
- Hispanic 33%
- White 15%
- Multiracial 5%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 51%
- Male 49%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
963
Economic Need Index
63%
Free / reduced lunch
59%
English learners
7%
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
$17.2MStudents: 968
66th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$17,817
2nd percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.