Success Academy Charter School - South Jamaica

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.

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]