About
Success Academy Charter School - Rosedale is an elementary charter school in Queens, serving students from kindergarten through fifth grade. It is widely recognized for its exceptional academic performance, with ELA and Math proficiency rates significantly exceeding citywide medians, placing it among the top-performing elementary schools in New York. The school operates with a highly structured academic model, emphasizing rigorous instruction, frequent assessment, and college-preparatory expectations from an early age. While many parents commend the school for providing an extraordinary education and fostering independence, some express concerns about the intense academic pressure, heavy homework load, and a highly disciplined environment that some perceive as overly strict or institutionalized. The school serves a predominantly Black student population, with a low percentage of English Language Learners and students with disabilities compared to citywide averages. Despite the academic intensity, the curriculum includes arts, music, chess, and athletics.
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
91%
Math proficiency
91%
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
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
$18.1MStudents: 1,124
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.