Success Academy Charter Schools
| Success Academy Charter Schools | |
|---|---|
| Location | |
95 Pine Street, New York, N.Y. 10005 (Main office) | |
| Coordinates | 40°42′16″N 74°00′23″W / 40.70444°N 74.00639°W |
| Information | |
| School type | Public charter with public & private funds |
| Established | 2006 |
| Founder | Eva S. Moskowitz |
| Status | Open |
| Authorizer | Charter Schools Institute, State University of New York |
| Chief Executive Officer | Eva Moskowitz |
| Staff | 2,300 |
| Grades | K–12 |
| Gender | Both |
| Enrollment | 17,000 |
| Language | English |
| Schedule | Mid-August to mid-June |
| Campus type | Urban |
| Color(s) | Orange and blue (logo and uniforms) |
| Athletics | Soccer, Track & Field, Cross Country, Basketball |
| Tuition | Free |
| Communities served | various New York City neighborhoods |
| Website | www |
Success Academy Charter Schools, originally Harlem Success Academy, is a charter school operator in New York City. Eva Moskowitz, a former city council member for the Upper East Side, is its founder and CEO. It has 47 schools in the New York area and 17,000 students.
According to the New York Post, Success Academy had 17,700 applicants for 3,288 available seats, which resulted in a wait list of more than 14,000 families for the 2018–2019 school year. The shortage of seats can be at least partly attributed to New York state educational policy. Robert Pondiscio, author of How The Other Half Learns (2019), which chronicles the structure and achievement of the Success Academy, believes that Moskowitz would quickly expand the system to 100 schools if the charter sector was not "hard up against the charter school cap in the State of New York".
Two documentary films, The Lottery and Waiting for "Superman", record the intense desire of parents to enroll their children in Success Academy and charter schools like Success Academy. By 2019, according to The Washington Post, the Success Academy network of 47 schools serving 17,000 students, is the "highest-performing and most criticized educational institution in New York", and perhaps in the United States. Mayor Michael Bloomberg said that the Harlem Success Academy was "the poster child for this country."