Success Academy Charter School - South Jamaica
- 120-27 141 Street, Queens
- Grades K-5
- Brianna Levy, Principal
About
Success Academy Charter School - South Jamaica serves students in grades K-5. The school demonstrates strong academic outcomes, with 94 percent of students achieving proficiency in English Language Arts, which is well above the citywide 75th percentile. In Mathematics, 99 percent of students achieved proficiency, also well above the citywide 75th percentile. The school enrolls 540 students. The student body includes 58 percent Black students, 16 percent Hispanic students, 14 percent Asian students, and 2 percent White students. The Economic Need Index for the school is 76 percent, and 72 percent of students are eligible for free or reduced-price lunch. The percentage of English Language Learners is 6 percent and students with Individualized Education Programs is 17 percent, both of which are below the citywide 25th percentile. The school reported a 0.0 percent suspension rate. Parent and student survey results are not available for this school.
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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
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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 14%
- Black 58%
- Hispanic 16%
- White 2%
- Multiracial 2%
School-level totals; may not sum to 100% due to rounding and small subgroup suppression.
Gender[4]
- Female 57%
- Male 43%
Female / male shares as published by the DOE; other gender identities aren’t reported in the source data.
Enrollment
540
Economic Need Index
76%
Free / reduced lunch
72%
English learners
6%
Students with IEPs
17%
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
17th percentile citywide
Total spend per student
$15,490
0th percentile citywide · city median $33,357
Location & commute
Where the school is and how to get there.