Success Academy Charter School - Upper West
- 145 WEST 84 STREET, Manhattan
- Grades K-8
- William Abbott, Principal
- 646-274-1580
About
Success Academy Charter School - Upper West serves students in grades K-8 in Manhattan. The school has an enrollment of 991 students, which is well above the citywide median. The student population includes 61.0 percent with an Economic Need Index, which is below the citywide 25th percentile, and 4.0 percent English Language Learners, also below the citywide 25th percentile. Students with Individualized Education Programs make up 16.0 percent of the enrollment, which is below the citywide 25th percentile. Academic outcomes for students in grades 3-8 show 95.0 percent proficiency in English Language Arts and 96.0 percent proficiency in Math, both well above the citywide 75th percentile. The school reports a 0.0 percent suspension rate. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
Sources (5)
- NYC DOE Location Code Generating and Management System (LCGMS) · 2026-27 (export of 2026-08-22)
- NYC DOE School Quality Reports and Snapshot, 2024-25 · 2024-25
- New York State Education Department School Report Card · 2024-25
- NYC School Survey (parent and student responses)
- MySchools admissions directory, 2025-26 cycle · 2025-26 admissions cycle
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
95%
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 20%
- Black 18%
- Hispanic 37%
- White 18%
- Multiracial 4%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 52%
- Male 48%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
991
Economic Need Index
61%
Free / reduced lunch
56%
English learners
4%
Students with IEPs
16%
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
$18.0MStudents: 1,002
68th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$17,949
2nd percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.