Success Academy Charter School-bronx 3, Bronx NY

Original Research by School Decision on Success Academy Charter School-bronx 3

Success Academy Charter School-Bronx 3 is a free, publicly funded charter school serving students from kindergarten through eleventh grade in the northeast Bronx. The school's defining feature is its test performance: across math and English language arts, the overwhelming majority of students in every tested grade through seventh are proficient. In third-grade math, for instance, proficiency sits in the upper 90s, with similarly strong results across grades four through seven in both subjects. In fifth-grade math, roughly four in five students are proficient, a dip but still well above city and state norms. Fifth-grade science also shows strong proficiency. These results place the school in the top quartile among districts across Bronx County on overall academic performance.

The school serves a population with substantial economic need. About four in five students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and the student body is predominantly Black and Latino, with smaller populations of students of other backgrounds. The enrollment across all grades is just under one thousand four hundred students.

One structural detail matters for families considering long-term commitment: the school recently converted to a full K-12 program. Previously, students who completed their time here had to apply to Success Academy high schools located outside the Bronx, in Brooklyn, Harlem, and Manhattan. Starting in August of this year, enrolled families now have the option of a new Bronx K-12 campus, which means a child can remain in the same borough from kindergarten through twelfth grade. This is significant because it changes the equation for parents weighing the commute burden and continuity of schooling.

A notable gap appears in the eighth grade. No results are reported for eighth-grade math, English language arts, or science. The school's enrollment counts show an eighth-grade cohort exists, so the absence of test data reflects the school structure rather than a missing grade band. Parents may want to look into this further with the school to understand the transition point between middle and high school and what instructional continuity looks like at that juncture.

The school sits in the Bronx's growth phase. The borough has seen major investment in housing, parkland infrastructure, and transit expansion in recent years, with strong residential development underway and planned Metro-North service expansion. The housing market in the school's zip code has appreciated, and rents have risen, positioning this area within the overall trajectory of the borough's economic development.

Success Academy as a network ranks at the top of New York State districts on state test measures, and Bronx 3's performance aligns with that standing. For families prioritizing strong academic grounding in core subjects and consistent, measurable outcomes, the school's data is its primary credential. The tradeoff is typical of charter schools: enrollment is fixed by the school's charter, and admission occurs through lottery rather than geographic assignment, so access depends on the luck of the draw at application time.

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Academic performance

How students perform on state tests, by grade, set against the district.

New York Regents Exams

4 courses reported · 2024-25

End-of-course exams required for a New York Regents diploma. Each row shows the cohort size and the share of students scoring at the proficient level or higher.

Course	Students tested	% proficient
Ela	126	91.0%
Math	118	98.0%
Science	14	43.0%
Social Studies	5	100.0%

Math

Grade 399%

School 99% · district not reported

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Grade 498%

School 98% · district not reported

▲ 40 pts above state median · ▲ 45 pts above county median

Grade 588%

School 88% · district not reported

▲ 37 pts above state median · ▲ 42 pts above county median

Grade 695%

School 95% · district not reported

▲ 50 pts above state median · ▲ 55 pts above county median

Grade 797%

School 97% · district not reported

▲ 44 pts above state median · ▲ 48 pts above county median

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 37 pts below state median · ▼ 37 pts below county median

English language arts

Grade 394%

School 94% · district not reported

▲ 42 pts above state median · ▲ 45 pts above county median

Grade 492%

School 92% · district not reported

▲ 39 pts above state median · ▲ 41 pts above county median

Grade 592%

School 92% · district not reported

▲ 38 pts above state median · ▲ 40 pts above county median

Grade 692%

School 92% · district not reported

▲ 46 pts above state median · ▲ 51 pts above county median

Grade 793%

School 93% · district not reported

▲ 46 pts above state median · ▲ 46 pts above county median

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 48 pts below state median · ▼ 49 pts below county median

Science

Grade 588%

School 88% · district not reported

▲ 46 pts above state median · ▲ 56 pts above county median

Grade 80%

School 0% · district not reported

▼ 33 pts below state median · ▼ 28 pts below county median

This schoolDistrict average, same grade

Graduation rate (ACGR) reflects the federally published Adjusted Cohort Graduation Rate for the most recent year available. We refresh this data annually at the close of each academic year in June. The federal source publishes a banded rate (for example, "90-94%") instead of an exact number for cohorts small enough to risk identifying individual students. The state distribution chart, where shown, plots every school in the state with a published rate or band; schools whose rate is federally suppressed are excluded. Where the federal source publishes a band rather than an exact rate, the school is placed within its band using a stable, ID-derived offset, so its position is consistent across visits.

Proficiency by household income

English language arts

Grade 3Lower-income96%Higher-income82%14 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income92%Higher-income91%1 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income91%Higher-income100%9 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income94%Higher-income84%10 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income94%Higher-income91%3 pp gap

Grade 8Lower-income97%Higher-income100%3 pp gap

Mathematics

Grade 3Lower-income100%Higher-income91%9 pp gap

Grade 4Lower-income98%Higher-income100%2 pp gap

Grade 5Lower-income89%Higher-income82%7 pp gap

Grade 6Lower-income93%Higher-income100%7 pp gap

Grade 7Lower-income96%Higher-income100%4 pp gap