Success Academy Charter School - South Jamaica
Grades K-5 · 120-27 141 Street · Queens
Brianna Levy, Principal
About
Success Academy Charter School - South Jamaica is a highly-regarded elementary charter school in Queens, known for its exceptional academic performance. The school serves students from kindergarten through fifth grade, with a significant proportion from economically disadvantaged backgrounds. Students consistently achieve outstanding results, with ELA proficiency at 94% and Math proficiency at 99%, both well above the citywide 75th percentile. The school maintains a very low suspension rate of 0%, contributing to a focused learning environment. Parents frequently express satisfaction with the rigorous education and dedicated teaching staff, reflected in a 100% positive parent survey response rate. While the academic program is highly structured and demanding, emphasizing high expectations and discipline, it also integrates arts, music, chess, and athletics into the school day. Some parents note that the intense academic environment and strict disciplinary approach may not be suitable for all students.
Academics
State test proficiency rates and acceleration.
ELA proficiency
94%
Math proficiency
99%
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
$8.6MStudents: 553
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.