Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 5
Grades K-8 · 301 WEST 140 STREET · Manhattan
About
Success Academy Charter School - Harlem 5, serving students in grades K-8, is part of the high-performing Success Academy network, known for its rigorous academic model. The school demonstrates exceptional academic achievement, with ELA proficiency at 89% and Math proficiency at 96%, both significantly exceeding citywide medians and ranking well above the 75th percentile. The student body is predominantly Black and Hispanic, with a high percentage of economically disadvantaged students. The school's approach combines traditional discipline with a progressive curriculum, emphasizing high expectations, structured classrooms, and extensive daily reading. Parents frequently commend the professional staff, effective teacher communication, and the school's success in fostering high aspirations among students. While the school's official parent survey response rate was notably low, other feedback highlights strong parent satisfaction with the quality of education and support provided. Some external commentary, however, points to the intensity of the academic environment and disciplinary practices.
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
89%
Math proficiency
96%
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
$13.7MStudents: 733
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.